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German Unification: A Feminist Moment By Kathryn Roy

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In German Unification: A Feminist Moment, Kathryn Roy presents the history of German women, their roles and rights in the 19th and 20th century. Kathryn Roy, a Historical fiction Writer with a history degree with a minor in german from Connecticut College. The book pulls from more than 50 sources, majority are in German. The sources range from German Constitutional Court Decisions made in 1975 to women’s magazine articles from 1990. When Roy mentions any german terms, they are immediately translated for the reader’s understanding. Roy’s thesis is about how it took Germany the many decades to give women unification and recognize their proper rights and roles in society.
Roy’s German Unification: A Feminist Moment focuses around three main categories:
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