Overview

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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Author:   Karen Hagemann ,  Donna Harsch ,  Friederike Brühöfener
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781789201918

ISBN 10:   1789201918
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   02 April 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Preface Introduction: Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements Karen Hagemann, Donna Harsch, and Friederike Brühöfener PART I: GENDERING THE HISTORIOGRAPHY Chapter 1. Entanglements of Gender, Politics, and Protest in the Historiography on the Two Post-1945 Germanys
 Karen Hagemann and Donna Harsch Chapter 2. Entangled Gender Relations and Sexuality in the Historiography on the Two Post-1945 Germanys
 Jennifer Evans Chapter 3. Contact Zones and Boundary Objects: The Media and Entangled Representations of Gender
 Erica Carter PART II: GENDER, POLITICS, AND POLICIES Chapter 4. The Big Cleanup: Men, Women, and Rubble Clearance in Postwar East and West Germany 
Leonie Treber Chapter 5. Children, Church, and Rights: East and West German Protests against Family Law Reforms in the 1950s
 Alexandria Ruble Chapter 6. Gendering Health Politics: East and West German Healthcare Systems in Comparison, 1950–1970
 Donna Harsch PART III: GENDERED RESISTANCE, PROTEST, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS Chapter 7. Under the Habit: Resistance of Catholic Sisters against East German State Authority in the 1950s
 Kathryn C. Julian Chapter 8. Finding Feminism: Rethinking Activism in the West German New Women’s Movement of the 1970s and 1980s 
Sarah E. Summers Chapter 9. Redefining the Political: The Gender of Activism in Grassroots Movements of the 1960s to 1980s Belinda Davis Chapter 10. Connected Differences: Black German Feminists and Their Transnational Connections of the 1980s and 1990s 
Tiffany N. Florvil PART IV: GENDER RELATIONS AND SEXUALITY Chapter 11. Domestic Abuse and Women’s Lives: East and West Policies during the 1960s and 1970s 
Jane Freeland Chapter 12. Searching for Identity: 1950s Homophile Politics in West Germany and Its Roots in the Weimar Homosexual Movement 
Clayton J. Whisnant Chapter 13. Contested Masculinities: Debates about Homosexuality in the West German Bundeswehr in 1960s and 1970s
 Friederike Brühöfener PART V: THE MEDIA AND REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER Chapter 14. In the Presence of the Past, in the Shadow of the “Other”: Women Journalists in Postwar Germany 
Deborah Barton Chapter 15. Entangled Femininities: Contested Representations of Women in the East and West German Illustrated Press of the 1950s
 Jennifer Lynn Chapter 16. Gendered Orientalism: Representations of “the Turkish” in the West German Press of the 1970s and 1980s
 Brittany Lehman Index of Names Index of Subjects

Reviews

The novel contributions in this volume represent truly innovative research and impressive new findings well contextualized by theory. The editors have done a brilliant job of reviewing the histography across the areas of Germany, history, and gender. Myra Max Ferree, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Author Information

Karen Hagemann is the James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on Modern German and European history and gender history. Her most recent publications include Gender and the Long Postwar: The United States and the Two Germanys, 1945–1989 (ed. with Sonya Michel, 2014).

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