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...Hitler appointed her Leader of German Women. She told German women: "We do everything regularly and jointly in accordance with the Führer's will. We obey unconditionally." She sent them to factories and farms, relentlessly pursued the Nazi race creed. "We bring the fruits of our motherhood to the Führer," she said, "and say to him, 'It is the best that we have. Therefore it belongs...
...through the three-day session. Another viewed with alarm the idea of community-cooked meals as a chore-saver. "Too many women find creative satisfaction in cooking," she cried. There were other signs of a return to old-fashioned ideas. The corset had already re-encircled the female waist; motherhood was at a 30-year peak of popularity...
With Fertile Valley's recreation hall as the main schoolhouse, the Spartan Wives now sponsor classes in everything from motherhood to swimming. A trained nurse teaches expectant mothers what to expect, talks them out of old wives' tales. After a wife has her baby, she graduates into classes on infant and child care, given by experts. In evening classes, expectant fathers can learn to bathe, powder and diaper rubber dolls...
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...makes his truism noteworthy is his insistence on applying it to women's education. After all, says he, 72% of all women ultimately marry. As president of Missouri's Stephens College (for women), Dr. Wood has trained 2,000 young women in the arts & sciences of wifehood, motherhood and homemaking. Even the college's psychology, literature and economics courses are, as he says, "geared . . . to its homemaking objective." He seems to be on the right track, for at last count 85% of the Stephens "Susies" land a man within five years of graduation...