Gendering post-1945 German history : entanglements / edited by Karen Hagemann, Donna Harsch, and Friederike Brühöfener

"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 sa...

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Other Authors:Hagemann, Karen (Editor)
Harsch, Donna (Editor)
Brühöfener, Friederike (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2019
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Summary:"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"
Item Description:Literaturangaben
Aus dem Vorwort: "For this volume we selected fourteen papers presented at the GSA and asked the authors to extend and rewrite them for publication" (Seite x)
First published in 2019 by Berghahn Books
Physical Description:xi, 395 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781789201918