Revenge of the Domestic : : Women, the Family, and Communism in the German Democratic Republic /

Revenge of the Domestic : : Women, the Family, and Communism in the German Democratic Republic / / Donna Harsch.

Revenge of the Domestic examines gender relations in East Germany from 1945 to the 1970s, focusing especially on the relationship between ordinary women, the Communist Party, and the state created by the Communists, the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The book weaves together personal stories from...

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Harsch, Donna,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2006
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Trying Time SURVIVAL CRISES AND POLITICAL DILEMMAS UNDER SOVIET OCCUPATION
  • CHAPTER TWO. Constructing Power: Women and the Political Program of the Socialist Unity Party
  • CHAPTER THREE. Forging the Female Proletarian: Women Workers, Production, and the Culture of the Shop Floor
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Restoring Fertility: Reproduction under the Wings of Mother State
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Reforming Taste: Public Services, Private Desires, and Domestic Labor
  • CHAPTER SIX. Reconstituting the Family: Domestic Relations between Tradition and Change
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Modernization and Its Discontents: State, Society, and Gender in the 1960s
  • Slouching toward Bethlehem
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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