Sisters in Arms

Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-508-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 38, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 270 g

Reihe: Monographs in German History

Few figures in modern German history are as central to the public memory of radical protest than Ulrike Meinhof, but she was only the most prominent of the countless German women—and militant male feminists—who supported and joined in revolutionary actions from the 1960s onward. Sisters in Arms gives a bracing account of how feminist ideas were enacted by West German leftist organizations from the infamous Red Army Faction to less well-known groups such as the Red Zora. It analyzes their confrontational and violent tactics in challenging the abortion ban, opposing violence against women, and campaigning for solidarity with Third World women workers. Though these groups often diverged ideologically and tactically, they all demonstrated the potency of militant feminism within postwar protest movements.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Karcher, Katharina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Note on Translations

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. The New Women’s Movement in West Germany

Chapter 2. Terrorism, Feminism and the Politics of Representation

Chapter 3. Militant Feminist Protest against the Abortion Ban

Chapter 4. Women Fighting Back: Feminist Responses to Violence against Women

Chapter 5. Sisters in Arms? Militant Feminist Protest and Transnational Solidarity

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Karcher, Katharina
Katharina Karcher is Lecturer in German in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham. Her research interests include feminist theory, European women’s movements, and the histories of protest, extremism and violence in the Federal Republic of Germany.