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Women entered the workforce in droves during WW2. “By 1943, 90% of single women and 80% of married women were employed, many in roles previously barred to them on the basis of sex…The war expanded the lives of many women. Miraculously, the idea that women were too physiologically and mentally fragile to carry out ‘men’s work’ faded away. [but women still had to keep the homes running at the same time]”
— Aug 17, 2026 06:05AM
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Margery Spring Rice observed that women ‘only come into the public conscience’ when performing ‘the public duty’ of motherhood
— Aug 21, 2026 04:25AM
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“Medical discourse still reflected and validated the age-old belief that the healthiest women were the most socially obedient.”
— Aug 21, 2026 04:24AM
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On the testing of women about to get married for syphillis.
“Once again, the preservation of success and the idealised social units of marriage and family lived and dies with women - with the control of their bodies, with the surveillance of their biology.”
Also sex workers were detained and tested for syphilis. Like previous times with other STDs, can be against their will
— Aug 21, 2026 04:23AM
“Once again, the preservation of success and the idealised social units of marriage and family lived and dies with women - with the control of their bodies, with the surveillance of their biology.”
Also sex workers were detained and tested for syphilis. Like previous times with other STDs, can be against their will
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But it wasn’t just Nazi Germany. That 1933 law was inspired by what had occurred in 1920s America (previously explored), where ableist and racist views pushed for sterilisation of women in mental facilities and of women of ethnic minorities, especially black women.
— Aug 17, 2026 06:23AM
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who were sentenced to ‘Hitler’s cut’. This included people with chronic diseases and disabilities and any other Nazi-declared deficiency (incl. being not white, being poor, unmarried etc), forcing women to abortions and sterilisation. This continued into the camps, where women were sterilised against their will, eg by injecting formaldehyde into the ovaries, causing intense pain and often death.
— Aug 17, 2026 06:21AM
who were sentenced to ‘Hitler’s cut’. This included people with chronic diseases and disabilities and any other Nazi-declared deficiency (incl. being not white, being poor, unmarried etc), forcing women to abortions and sterilisation. This continued into the camps, where women were sterilised against their will, eg by injecting formaldehyde into the ovaries, causing intense pain and often death.
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However, forced sterilisation, birth control and abortion was also used for eugenicist ideals, as previously explored. Used to force women of ‘improper’ quality to not reproduce. Especially used on women of colour or of mental ‘inferiority’. Eugenics reached extreme levels during Nazi rule. In 1933, the Nazi Party passed a law making it legal to sterilise ‘lives unworthy of life’ CONT
— Aug 17, 2026 06:18AM
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So when we tell you we can do it, you say we can’t, we’re too weak, too inferior.
Only when you really need us do you open the doors for us to enter those roles, and lo and behold we excel in them.
Why are we only USED for what you need us to do, not respected to make our own choice and do something that serves us.
— Aug 17, 2026 06:06AM
So when we tell you we can do it, you say we can’t, we’re too weak, too inferior.
Only when you really need us do you open the doors for us to enter those roles, and lo and behold we excel in them.
Why are we only USED for what you need us to do, not respected to make our own choice and do something that serves us.
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behind rising abortion rates. Not did it hold the law…accountable for maternal injury, illness and death. It was more convenient to blame ‘unskilled’ abortionists. And, sadly, it was more important to uphold moral righteousness than to protect society’s most vulnerable women.”
— Aug 17, 2026 05:59AM
behind rising abortion rates. Not did it hold the law…accountable for maternal injury, illness and death. It was more convenient to blame ‘unskilled’ abortionists. And, sadly, it was more important to uphold moral righteousness than to protect society’s most vulnerable women.”
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“Women would always find a way to procure abortions, the Birkett Committee agreed. And they rarely did so for ‘selfish’ reasons. Married women ended pregnancies because of poverty, unemployment and health problems. Some single women couldn’t face the stigma and hardships of being an unwed mother. The report didn’t recommend any solutions to the social and economic difficulties…
— Aug 17, 2026 05:58AM