Gendering Post-1945 German History

Entanglements
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-191-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 739 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hagemann, Karen

Harsch, Donna

Brühöfener, Friederike

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Brühöfener, Friederike
Friederike Brühöfener is Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She is currently working on a comparative study on the development of military masculinities in East and West Germany.

Hagemann, Karen
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).

Harsch, Donna
Donna Harsch is Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on the political and social historian of twentieth-century Germany. Her most recent publications include Revenge of the Domestic: Women, the Family, and Communism in the German Democratic Republic (2007).

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).