TY - JOUR AU - Zettelbauer, Heidrun PY - 2004/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Imaginierte Körper: Geschlecht und Nation im deutschnational-völkischen Verein Südmark 1894-1918 JF - Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften JA - OeZG VL - 15 IS - 1 SE - research paper DO - 10.25365/oezg-2004-15-1-2 UR - https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/4172 SP - 9–36 AB - <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'MinionMM_367_585_8_';">Due to the conception of women as ›physical reproducers‹ of the imagined community called nation, the german-nationalist discourse around 1900 discussed the ›beauty‹, the ›otherness‹, the ›motherhood‹, the ›healthiness‹ and ›illness‹ of the female body. The aim of the german-nationalist conceptions of the female body was a dissociation from people of other nations as well as an exclusion of those social groups who were considered as posing a threat to the nation from within. Imaginations of female body served to establish a national and gendered division of labour and to invent a historical ›Germanic‹ tradition. The female body was functionalized as a metaphor for the »Volks-Körper«, leading to its image of being the ›border of the nation‹. German-nationalist body-conceptions rejected women’s efforts for political participation and authorized the oppression of self-determined behaviour of women. Female activists of the </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'MinionMM'; font-style: italic;">Südmark </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'MinionMM_367_585_8_';">had to face these powerful images in nearly every sphere of life. However, german-nationalist female politicians and activists made use of the ambivalences of the national body conceptions to develop their own strategies of political behaviour. </span></p></div></div></div> ER -