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Book Women and the Wende

Download or read book Women and the Wende written by Elizabeth Boa and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women and the Wende

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  • Release : 1994
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  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Women and the Wende written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women and the Wende

Download or read book Women and the Wende written by Elizabeth Boa and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1994 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De congrespapers voor dit congres onderzoeken de effecten van de Duitse eenwording op het leven van vrouwen, en hoe vrouwen hebben gereageerd op de politieke, economische, sociale en culturele veranderingen en eveneens hoe de politieke veranderingen geportretteerd zijn in de media en in literaire teksten. In deze bundel zijn de volgende bijdragen opgenomen: A la recherche de la révolution perdue : ein innerdeutscher Monolog / door Barbara Köhler; Frauen im vereinten Deutschland : Wertewandel oder Verzicht? / door Sabine Bergmann-Pohl; Women in the new federal states after the Wende : the impact of unification on women's employment opportunities / door Barbara Einhorn; Women, work and the Wende : regional and sectoral perspectives, political and individual responses / door Rachel Alsop; The abortion debate in unified Germany / door Elizabeth Clements; Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschlands : socialist mass organisation and western charity? / door Julia Teschner; Keeping a foot in the door : East German women's academic, political, cultural and social projects / door Hanna Behrend; Der gewendete Kulturbetrieb? / door Kerstin Mey; Identitäten von Ost-Frauen im Transformationsprozess : Probleme ostdeutscher Frauenforschung / door Irene Dölling; Women in East Germany : emancipation of exploitation? / door Dinah Dodds; Changing subjectivities? women and identity / door Chris Weedon; Wende-Bilder : television images of women in Germany in transition / door Andrea Rinke; Für Dich and the Wende : women's weekly between plan and market / door Martha Wörsching; Emma and the Wende / door Margaret Stone; Pressing for change : the case of Helga Königsdorf / door Jean E. Conacher; To the Victor the spoils : Sleeping Beauty's sexual awakening / door Ingrid Sharp; Elektra, Iphigenie and Antigone : Volker Braun's women and the Wende / door J.H.Reid; 'Eine Königin köpfen ist effektiver als einen König köpfen' : the gender politics of the Christa Wolf controversy / door Anna K. Kuhn; Adieu Kassandra? Schriftstellerinnen aus der DDR vor, in und nach der Wende / door Eva Kaufmann; 'Über Verschwiegenes sprechen' : female homosexuality and the public sphere in the GDR before and after the Wende / door Georgina Paul; Demontage der Modellfrau-DDR: Dekonstruktionen der allseitig entwickelten sozialistischen Persönlichkeit / door Astrid Herhoffer; From surrealism to realism : Monika Maron's 'Die Überläuferin' and 'Stille Zeile sechs' / door Ricarda Schmidt; Der Mut zu stolzen Tönen / door Helga Königsdorf.

Book Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe  Russia  and Eurasia

Download or read book Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe Russia and Eurasia written by Mary Zirin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 2898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.

Book The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature

Download or read book The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature written by Friederike Eigler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-02-28 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, a multiplicity of feminist approaches has become an integral part of the fields of German literary and cultural studies. This comprehensive reference provides a much needed synthesis of the contribution women have made to German literature and culture. In entries for more than 500 topics, the volume surveys literary periods, epochs, and genres; critical approaches and theories; important authors and works; female stereotypes; laws and historical developments; literary concepts and themes; and organizations and archives relevant to women and women's studies. Each entry offers a concise identification of the term, a discussion of its significance, and a bibliography of works for further reading. Today, a multiplicity of feminist approaches has become an integral part of the fields of German literary and cultural studies. While biographical works on women writers exist, this is the first reference to synthesize the wealth of feminist scholarship in German studies. While existing reference works focus exclusively on women authors, this volume contains numerous topical entries and covers the role of women in German literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present day. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on more than 500 topics. While some entries are provided for important women writers and other individuals, the bulk of the volume provides information on literary periods, epochs, and genres; critical approaches and theories; female stereotypes; laws and historical developments; literary concepts and themes; and organizations and archives relevant to women and women's studies. Each entry includes a brief identification of the subject, a discussion of feminist thought on the topic, and a brief bibliography. Entries are written by numerous contributors and reflect a range of critical/theoretical approaches.

Book When the War Was Over

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  • Author : Claire Duchen
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2010-07-15
  • ISBN : 144117270X
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book When the War Was Over written by Claire Duchen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular images of post-war women represent them welcoming home the soldiers, but this volume asks, "What happened next?"The contributors use a range of methodological approaches to encourage the reader to question traditional historiography, the nature of the historical evidence, the process of memory, and the disparities between official discourse and personal narrative, and between written, visual and oral accounts.

Book International Perspectives On Gender and Democratisation

Download or read book International Perspectives On Gender and Democratisation written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Perspectives on Gender and Democratization brings together the experience of women's democratic movements in different countries and regions, North and South, and assesses how different discourses of democracy have been used by women's groups to assert women's rights. Sensitive to particular histories, ideologies, and cultural contexts, the contributors assess the strengths and the problems facing women's democratic movements as they consolidate their gains and face new challenges.

Book Mapping Morality in Postwar German Women s Fiction

Download or read book Mapping Morality in Postwar German Women s Fiction written by Michelle Mattson and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes Wolf's, Drewitz's, and Weil's views of individual responsibility in history, with reference to theories of memory and feminist ethics.

Book Living Gender after Communism

Download or read book Living Gender after Communism written by Janet Elise Johnson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has the collapse of communism across Europe and Eurasia changed gender? In addition to acknowledging the huge costs that fell heavily on women, Living Gender after Communism suggests that moving away from communism in Europe and Eurasia has provided an opportunity for gender to multiply, from varieties of neo-traditionalism to feminisms, from overt negotiation of femininity to denials of gender. This development, in turn, has enabled some women in the region to construct their own gendered identities for their own political, economic, or social purposes. Beginning with an understanding of gender as both a society-wide institution that regulates people's lives and a cultural "toolkit" which individuals and groups may use to subvert or "transvalue" the sex/gender system, the contributors to this volume provide detailed case studies from Belarus, Bosnia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine. This collaboration between young scholars -- most from postcommunist states -- and experts in the fields of gender studies and postcommunism combines intimate knowledge of the area with sophisticated gender analysis to examine just how much gender realities have shifted in the region. Contributors are Anna Brzozowska, Karen Dawisha, Nanette Funk, Ewa Grigar, Azra Hromadzic, Janet Elise Johnson, Anne-Marie Kramer, Tania Rands Lyon, Jean C. Robinson, Iulia Shevchenko, Svitlana Taraban, and Shannon Woodcock.

Book A History of Women s Writing in Germany  Austria and Switzerland

Download or read book A History of Women s Writing in Germany Austria and Switzerland written by Jo Catling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-23 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume makes the wide-ranging work of German women writers visible to a wider audience. It is the first work in English to provide a chronological introduction to and overview of women's writing in German-speaking countries from the Middle Ages to the present day. Extensive guides to further reading and a bibliographical guide to the work of more than 400 women writers form an integral part of the volume, which will be indispensable for students and scholars of German literature, and all those interested in women's and gender studies.

Book Complicity  Censorship and Criticism

Download or read book Complicity Censorship and Criticism written by Sara Jones and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that showcase significant scholarly work at the various intersections that currently motivate interdisciplinary inquiry in German cultural studies. Topics span German-speaking lands and cultures from the 18th to the 21st century, with a special focus on demonstrating how various disciplines and new theoretical and methodological paradigms work across disciplinary boundaries to create knowledge and add to critical understanding in German studies. The series editor is a renowned professor of German studies in the United States who penned one of the foundational texts for understanding what interdisciplinary German cultural studies can be. All works are peer-reviewed and in English. Three new titles will be published annually. About the series editor: Irene Kacandes is the Dartmouth Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. She received three degrees from Harvard University and also studied at the Free University of Berlin and Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She publishes on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics including secondary orality, rhetoric, aesthetics, trauma, witnessing, family and generational memory, experimental life writing, Holocaust testimony, and narrative theory. She has lectured widely in the United States and Europe and currently serves as President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and Vice President of the German Studies Association.

Book Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe

Download or read book Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe written by Ulrike M. Vieten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe combines a feminist critique of contemporary and prominent approaches to cosmopolitanism with an in-depth analysis of historical cosmopolitanism and the manner in which gendered symbolic boundaries of national political communities in two European countries are drawn. Exploring the work of prominent scholars of new cosmopolitanism in Britain and Germany, including Held, Habermas, Beck and Bhabha, it delivers a timely intervention into current debates on globalisation, Europeanisation and social processes of transformation in and beyond specific national societies. A rigorous examination of the emancipatory potential of current debates surrounding cosmopolitanism in Europe, this book will be of interest to sociologist and political scientists working on questions of identity, inclusion, citizenship, globalisation, cosmopolitanism and gender.

Book Nomadic Ethics in Contemporary Women s Writing in German

Download or read book Nomadic Ethics in Contemporary Women s Writing in German written by Emily Jeremiah and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores nationality, gender, and postmodern subjectivity in the work of five German-speaking women writers who embody a "nomadic ethics." How can postmodern subjectivity be ethically conceived? What can literature contribute to this project? What role do "gender" and "nation" play in the construction of contemporary identities? Nomadic Ethics broaches these questions, exploring the work of five women writers who live outside of the German-speaking countries or thematize a move away from them: Birgit Vanderbeke, Dorothea Grünzweig, Antje Rávic Strubel, Anna Mitgutsch, and Barbara Honigmann. It draws on work by Rosi Braidotti, Sara Ahmed, and Judith Butler to develop a nomadic ethics, and examines how the writers under discussion conceptualize contemporary German and Austrian identities -- especially but not only gender identities -- in instructive ways. The book engages with a number of critical issues in contemporary German studies: globalization; green thought; questions of gender and sexuality; East (and West) German identities; Austrianness; the postmemory of the Holocaust; and Jewishness. In this way, Nomadic Ethics offers a valuable contribution to debates about the nature of German studies itself, as well as insightful readings of the individual authors and texts concerned. Emily Jeremiah is Lecturer in German, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Book Women in German Yearbook

Download or read book Women in German Yearbook written by Women in German Yearbook and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in German Yearbook volume 13 opens with essays by Herta M_ller and Libuse Mon�kov¾. Karin Wurst probes Elise B_rger's Gothic imagination, Daniel Purdy analyzes Sophie Mereau's translations in relation to early Romantic aesthetics, and Lynne Tatlock finds evidence of an imagined German nation in the memoirs of Luise M_hlbach. Barbara Hyams casts new light on Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's attitudes toward Jews and women, David Brenner examines Vicki Baum's ambivalence about her Jewish heritage, and Katharina Gerstenberger discusses Wanda von Sacher-Masoch's confessions to demonstrate the contested position of the female autobiographer.Birgit Dahlke focuses on Elke Erb to explore why many GDR women writers chose not to be identified as "feminists," and Beth Linklater analyzes Gabriele St”tzer-Kachold's sexual imagery as a new understanding of the female body. Jutta Ittner analyzes one of Brigitte Kronauer's stories as a tale of female maturation, Annette Meusinger explores racism and feminist aesthetics by considering two novels by Anne Duden, and Monika Shafi discusses a novel by Jeannette Lander in the contexts of postcolonial and travel literature. The volume closes with Heike Henderson's examination of German texts by four Turkish women.Sara Friedrichsmeyer is a professor in and chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Cincinatti. Patricia Herminghouse is a professor of German at the University of Rochester.

Book Ambivalent Literary Farewells to the German Democratic Republic

Download or read book Ambivalent Literary Farewells to the German Democratic Republic written by John David Pizer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reverses the question implicit in title of Christa Wolf’s now-canonical 1990 novella Was bleibt (What remains), looking instead at what was lost during the process of German reunification. It argues that, in their work during and after the Wende, most literary authors from both East and West Germany responded ambivalently to the reunification. Many felt, on the one hand, a keen sense of loss as the GDR dissolved and an expanded Federal Republic summarily absorbed former Eastern Germany. They mourned the ideals of democratic socialism, tolerance, and internationalism that the GDR had held dear, as well as the country’s rich cultural life. On the other hand, however, they recognized that the GDR was a fundamentally corrupt surveillance state whose industry weighed heavily on the environment while failing to buoy the country’s economy. By looking at works by some of the most important authors from either side of the border, this study shows that those who unequivocally embraced the reunification were clearly in the minority.

Book Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin  1968 2002

Download or read book Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin 1968 2002 written by Jane Freeland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in-depth historical study of feminist activism against domestic violence in divided Berlin between 1968 and 2002. Starting in the 1970s, feminists in West and then East Berlin campaigned against domestic violence as a key issue of women's inequality. They exposed the harmful gender norms that left women unprotected and vulnerable to abuse in the home and called for this to change. Indeed, domestic violence has been one of the issues most effectively addressed by the women's movement in Germany. Since the first shelter opened in West Berlin in 1976, women's shelters have spread throughout the country, and today up to 45,000 women a year turn to emergency housing in Germany, with many more accessing helplines and crisis centres. Situating domestic violence activism within a broader history of feminism in post-war Germany, Feminist Transformations traces the evolution of this movement both across political division and reunification and from grassroots campaign to established, professionalised social service. In doing so, it brings the histories of feminism in East and West Berlin together for the first time and explores how feminism successfully changed women's rights in Germany. But it also asks what popular and political support for domestic violence activism has meant for feminism and the advancement of women's rights more broadly. Examining the trajectory of feminism in Germany, Jane Freeland reveals the limitations of gender equality as advancements in women's rights were often built on the reassertion of patriarchal gender roles.