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SUMMARY:'Beyond our wildest ambitions': German women's organisations 1914-
 18 - Dr Ingrid Sharp
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CONTACT:Ulrike Balser
DESCRIPTION:In this public lecture Dr Ingrid Sharp explores the response o
 f the organised German women's movement to the outbreak of the First World
  War and considers the challenges to their position of patriotic support f
 or the war from within their own ranks. Before 1914\, the bourgeois German
  women's movement had been viewed with suspicion by left and right alike\,
  and largely discounted by the government. All this changed with the outbr
 eak of war in August 1914\, when the Federation of German Women (BDF) was 
 ready with a plan to coordinate the patriotic war work of organised German
  women. The BDF and its member organisations\, including the League of Jew
 ish Women under the leadership of Bertha Pappenheim\, hoped to demonstrate
  the qualities of patriotism and civic responsibility that would lead to g
 reater inclusion in the life of the state once war was over. This public l
 ecture is part of the Women in German Studies (WIGS) annual conference.
LOCATION:The Diamond\, Selwyn College\, Cambridge\, CB3 9DQ
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