Gendering Post-1945 German History

Entanglements

Karen Hagemann, Donna Harsch, Friederike Brühöfener (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

408 Seiten

2019
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781789201918 (ISBN)

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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.

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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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

Erscheinungsdatum	01.08.2019
Zusatzinfo	6 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-13	9781789201918 / 9781789201918
Zustand	Neuware