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Forum for Modern Language Studies 2002 38(1):37-48; doi:10.1093/fmls/38.1.37
© 2002 by Court of the University of St Andrews
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Unmarried Mothers in German Society and German-Language Drama Around 1900

Karl Leydecker1

1 School of Modern Languages: German, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK

This article first examines the legal situation of unmarried mothers in Wilhelmine Germany following the introduction of the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch für das deutsche Reich in 1900. This leads on to a brief discussion of the reform movements that sought an improvement in the disastrous situation of unmarried mothers around the turn of the century. The main focus of the article is then an examination of the representation of unmarried motherhood in German-language plays around 1900. Whilst the majority of plays present unmarried mothers as victims, some dramatists use the character of the unmarried mother as a champion of a new and radical sexual morality.


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