Gisela Bock (February 8, 1942-) is a German feminist historian. She was born in Karlsruhe, Germany. Her father was a chemist. She has taught at at the Free University of Berlin (1971-1983), the European University Institute (1985-1989) in Florence, Italy and at the University of Bielefeld. She is currently professor at Free University of Berlin. February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ... A historian is a person who studies history. ... Map of Germany showing Karlsruhe Coat of Arms of Karlsruhe Karlsruhe castle at night Karlsruhe (population 282,595 in December 2003) is a city of Germany, in the Bundesland Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border. ... Satellite photo of Berlin. ... Founded 59 BC as Florentia Region Tuscany Mayor Leonardo Domenici (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  102 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 356,000 almost 500,000 3,453/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Latitude Longitude 43°47 N 11°15 E www. ... Bielefeld University (German: Universität Bielefeld) is a university in Bielefeld, Germany. ... Satellite photo of Berlin. ...

In the 1970s, Bock was one of the leaders of a movement to have women paid for housework. Bock's best known work was her 1986 book Zwangssterilisation im Nationalsozialismus (Compulsory Sterilization in National Socialism), a study of the 400, 000 compulsory sterilizations perfomed in Nazi Germany between 1934-1945. Bock examined the history of sterilization in Nazi Germany both from above and below. Bock claimed that sexism and racism in Nazism were linked so closely together as to be inseparable. Bock also claimed that the Nazi sterilization policy was not a prelude to genocidical policies of the Nazi regime, but were rather a integral part of the population policy of the regime. Finally, Bock maintained pronatalism was not the main concern of Nazi women's policy, but rather antinatalism. Bock claimed that by threatening all German women with the possiblity of a compulsory sterilization or abortion if they were not producing children that were "racially fit", the regime vicitimzed all women. Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Sterilization can mean: Sterilization (surgical procedure) - an operation which renders an animal or human unable to procreate Sterilization (microbiology) - the elimination of microbiological organisms It can also mean the death of sperm cells due to radiation. ... The sign of the headquarters of the National Association Opposed To Woman Suffrage Sexism is commonly considered to be discrimination against people based on their sex rather than their individual merits, but can also refer to any and all differentiations based on sex. ... An African-American man drinks out of the colored only water fountain at a racially segregated streetcar terminal in the United States in 1939. ... The term National Socialism has been used in self-description by a number of different political groups and ideologies, some of which have no connection with the Nazis; see National socialism (disambiguation). ...

This last claim together with Bock's assertions that women who were sterilized suffered more then men who were sterilized and the pain experienced by those women who sterilized should be projected onto the entire female population of Germany has proven to be very controvesrsial and has sparked much debate. Many historians such as Claudia Koonz have claimed that Nazi population policies were as much pronatal as they were antinatal and the experience of those women sterilized can not be projected onto every women under the Third Reich. Claudia Ann Koonz is a American feminist historian of Nazi Germany. ...

Work

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• Thomas Campanella: politisches Interesse und philosphische Spekulation, Tübingen : Niemeyer, 1974.
• Die andere Arbeiterbewegung in den USA von 1905-1922: die Industrial Workers of the World, München: Trikont, 1976.
• co-written with Barbara Duden "Arbeit aus Liebe/Liebe als Arbeit: zur Entstehung der Hausarbeit im Kapitalismus" from Frauen und Wissenschaft: Beiträge zur Berliner Sommeruniversität für Frauen Juli 1976, 1977.
• Zwangssterilisation im Nationalsozialismus: Studien zur Rassenpolitik und Frauenpolitik, Opladen : Westdeutscher Verlag, 1986.
• Frauen in der europäischen Geschichte, München:C.H.Beck 2000
• (edited with Margarete Zimmermann), Die europäische Querelle des Femmes : Geschlechterdebatten seit dem 15. Jahrhundert, Stuttgart ; Weimar : Metzler, 1997. -
• (editor), Genozid und Geschlecht. Jüdische Frauen im nationalsozialistischen Lagersystem, Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus 2005

english The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It contends that all workers should be united within a single union as a class and the wage system abolished. ...

• "Women's History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate" pages 7-30 from Gender and History, Volume 1, 1989.
• co-edited with Pat Thane Maternity and Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of the European Welfare States, 1880s-1950s, 1991.
• co-edited with Susan James Beyond Equality and Difference: Citizenship, Feminist Politics and Female Subjectivity, 1992.
• Women in European history - Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2002