Gendering post-1945 German history : entanglements / edited by Karen Hagemann, Donna Harsch, and Friederike Bruhofener
- Bib ID:
- 8041221
- Format:
- Book
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- New York : Berghahn Books, 2019
- ©2019
- xi, 395 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9781789201918 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
- 1789201918 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
- Invalid ISBN:
- 9781789201925 (electronic book)
- Summary:
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"Although 'entanglement' has become a keyword in recent German history scholarship, entangled studies of the postwar era have largely limited their scope to politics and economics across the two Germanys while giving short shrift to social and cultural phenomena like gender. At the same time, historians of gender in Germany have tended to treat East and West Germany in isolation, with little attention paid to intersections and interrelationships between the two countries. This groundbreaking collection synthesizes the perspectives of entangled history and gender studies, bringing together established as well as upcoming scholars to investigate the ways in which East and West German gender relations were culturally, socially, and politically intertwined"--
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- Introduction. Gendering post-1945 German history : entanglements / Karen Hagemann, Donna Harsch, and Friederike Bruhofener
- Entanglements of gender, politics, and protest in the historiography on the two post-1945 Germans / Karen Hagemann and Donna Harsch
- Entangled gender relations and sexuality in the historiography on the two post-1945 Germans / Jennifer Evans
- Contact zones and boundary objects : the media and entangled representations of gender / Erica Carter
- The big cleanup : men, women, and the clearance of the rubble in postwar East and West German / Leonie Treber
- Children, church, and rights : East and West German protests against family law reforms in the 1950s / Alexandria Ruble
- Gendering health politics : East and West German healthcare systems in comparison, 1950-1970 / Donna Harsch
- Under the habit : resistance of Catholic sisters against East German state authority in the 1950s / Kathryn C. Julian
- Finding feminism : rethinking activism in the new West German women's movement of the 1970s and 1980s / Sarah E. Summers
- Redefining the political : the gender of activism in grassroots movements of the 1960s to 1980s / Belinda Davis
- Connected differences : black German feminists and their transnational connections of the 1980s and 1990s / Tiffany N. Florvil
- Domestic abuse and women's lives : East and West policies during the 1960s and 1970s / Jane Freeland
- Searching for identity : 1950s homophile politics in West German and its roots in the Weimar homosexual movement / Clayton J. Whisnant
- Contested masculinities : debates about homosexuality in the West German Bundeswehr in the 1960s and 1970s / Friederike Bruhofener
- In the presence of the past, in the shadow of the "other" : women journalists in postwar German / Deborah Barton
- Entangled femininities : contested representations of women in the East and West German illustrated press of the 1950s / Jennifer Lynn
- Gendered orientalism : representations of "the Turkish" in the West German press of the 1970s and 1980s / Brittany Lehman.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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