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       Monographs in German History

       Volume 1

      Osthandel and Ostpolitik: German Foreign Trade Policies in Eastern Europe from Bismarck to Adenauer Mark Spaulding

       Volume 2

      A Question of Priorities: Democratic Reform and Economic Recovery in Postwar Germany Rebecca Boehling

       Volume 3

      From Recovery to Catastrophe: Municipal Stabilization and Political Crisis in Weimar Germany Ben Lieberman

       Volume 4

      Nazism in Central Germany: The Brownshirts in 'Red’ Saxony Christian W. Szejnmann

       Volume 5

      Citizens and Aliens: Foreigners and the Law in Britain and the German States, 1789–1870 Andreas Fahrmeir

       Volume 6

      Poems in Steel: National Socialism and the Politics of Inventing from Weimar to Bonn Kees Gispen

       Volume 7

      “Aryanisation” in Hamburg Frank Bajohr

       Volume 8

      The Politics of Education: Teachers and School Reform in Weimar Germany Marjorie Lamberti

       Volume 9

      The Ambivalent Alliance: Konrad Adenauer, the CDU/CSU, and the West, 1949-1966 Ronald J. Granieri

       Volume 10

      The Price of Exclusion: Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Decline of German Liberalism, 1898-1933 E. Kurlander

       Volume 11

      Recasting West German Elites: Higher Civil Servants, Business Leaders, and Physicians in Hesse betweenNazism and Democracy, 1945-1955 Michael R. Hayse

       Volume 12

      The Creation of the Modern German Army: General Walther Reinhardt and the Weimar Republic,1914-1930 William Mulligan

       Volume 13

      The Crisis of the German Left: The PDS, Stalinism and the Global Economy Peter Thompson

       Volume 14

      “Conservative Revolutionaries”: Protestant and Catholic Churches in Germany After Radical Political Change in the 1990s Barbara Thériault

       Volume 15

      Modernizing Bavaria: The Politics of Franz Josef Strauss and the CSU, 1949-1969 Mark Milosch

       Volume 16

      Sex, Thugs and Rock ‘N’ Roll. Teenage Rebels in Cold-War East Germany Mark Fenemore

       Volume 17

      Cultures of Abortion in Weimar Germany Cornelie Usborne

       Volume 18

      Selling the Economic Miracle: Economic Reconstruction and Politics In West Germany, 1949-1957 Mark E. Spicka

       Volume 19

      Between Tradition and Modernity: Aby Warburg and Art in Hamburg's Public Realm 1896-1918 Mark A. Russell

       Volume 20

      A Single Communal Faith? The German Right from Conservatism to National Socialism Thomas Rohrämer

       Volume 21

      Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany: Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond William T. Markham

       Volume 22

      Crime Stories: Criminalistic Fantasy and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar Germany Todd Herzog

       Volume 23

      Liberal Imperialism in Germany: Expansionism and Nationalism, 1848-1884 Matthew IP Fitzpatrick

       Volume 24

      Bringing Culture to the Masses: Control, Compromise and Participation in the GDR Esther von Richthofen

       Volume 25

      Banned in Berlin: Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918 Gary D. Stark

       Volume 26

      After the ‘Socialist Spring’: Collectivisation and Economic Transformation in the GDR George Last

       Volume 27

      Learning Democracy: Education Reform in West Germany, 1945-1965 Brian M. Puaca

       Volume 28

      Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists between Authenticity and Performance Timothy S. Brown

       Volume 29

      The Political Economy of Germany under Chancellors Kohl and Schröder: Decline of the German Model? Jeremy Leaman

       Volume 30

      The Surplus Woman: Unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918 Catherine L. Dollard

       THE SURPLUS WOMAN

      Unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918

      Catherine L. Dollard

      Published in 2009 by

       Berghahn Books

       www.berghahnbooks.com

      ©2009, 2012 Catherine L. Dollard

      First ebook edition published in 2011

      First paperback edition published in 2012

      All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission of the publisher.

       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Dollard, Catherine Leota.

      The surplus woman : unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871/1918 / Catherine L. Dollard.—1st ed. p. cm.—(Monographs in German history ; v. 30)

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-1-84545-480-7 (hbk.)—ISBN 978-0-85745-313-6 (pbk.)—ISBN 978-1-84545-952-9 (ebk.)

      1. Women—Germany—History. I. Title.

      HQ1623.D64 2009

      306.81'53094309034—dc22 2009015697

      British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      ISBN 978-1-84545-480-7 (hardback)

      ISBN 978-0-85745-313-6 (paperback)

      ISBN 978-1-78533-662-1 (open access ebook)