No Place For A Woman: Olga Eggers
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No Place For A Woman: Olga Eggers. / Bak, Sofie Lene.
Handbook Ideologies in National Socialism Online. red. / Julien Reitzenstein; Darren M. O’Byrne. De Gruyter, 2023.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Encyclopædiartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - No Place For A Woman: Olga Eggers
AU - Bak, Sofie Lene
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Olga Eggers (1875-1945) is one of the great mysteries in modern Danish political history. She was a beloved author of progressive novels for women and children, a Social Democrat and an advocate for sexual liberation and women's rights, who surprised everyone with a sudden commitment to the National Socialist cause in 1934. Her political engagement soon became one-sidedly fixed on anti-Semitism, cultivating a belief in a global Jewish conspiracy. As editor of the notorious anti-Semitic tabloid Kamptegnet (The Battle Cry), she denounced modernism as hypocritical and misogynistic and promoted a conservative concept of biological gender differences, restricting women to roles as wives and mothers. Paradoxically, although National Socialism did not ideologically endorse political and public roles for women, individual women such as Eggers did achieve pivotal status in local National Socialist movements. Yet her political career soon faded, as she was prosecuted and convicted for libel in 1943, and she died few days after the liberation of Denmark in May 1945.
AB - Olga Eggers (1875-1945) is one of the great mysteries in modern Danish political history. She was a beloved author of progressive novels for women and children, a Social Democrat and an advocate for sexual liberation and women's rights, who surprised everyone with a sudden commitment to the National Socialist cause in 1934. Her political engagement soon became one-sidedly fixed on anti-Semitism, cultivating a belief in a global Jewish conspiracy. As editor of the notorious anti-Semitic tabloid Kamptegnet (The Battle Cry), she denounced modernism as hypocritical and misogynistic and promoted a conservative concept of biological gender differences, restricting women to roles as wives and mothers. Paradoxically, although National Socialism did not ideologically endorse political and public roles for women, individual women such as Eggers did achieve pivotal status in local National Socialist movements. Yet her political career soon faded, as she was prosecuted and convicted for libel in 1943, and she died few days after the liberation of Denmark in May 1945.
U2 - 10.1515/inso.21837246
DO - 10.1515/inso.21837246
M3 - Encyclopedia chapter
BT - Handbook Ideologies in National Socialism Online
A2 - Reitzenstein, Julien
A2 - O’Byrne, Darren M.
PB - De Gruyter
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