Staging philanthropy patriotic women and the national imagination in dynastic Germany, 1813-1916 - Quataert, Jean H., (Jean Helen) (University of Michigan Press, 2001)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Dynastic legitimacy and women's philanthropy in German state and nation building -- The Landesmutter and philanthropic practices in the new German dynastic states, 1813-1848 -- The politics of philanthropy under dynastic patronage, 1848 to 1870-71 -- Civic voluntarism and gift giving in the "caring" state -- Cultural performances in the struggle over national community after 1871 -- Gendered medical war services in the "curing" state -- Mobilizing social memory : gendered images of war and sacrifice -- Testing patriotic alliances, 1913-1916 -- Conclusion : a gendered reading of patriotism and power