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Triumph of the fatherland : German unification and the marginalization of women / Brigitte Young.
LIBRA HQ1236.5.G3 Y68 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Young, Brigitte, 1946-
- Series:
- Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Political activity--Germany.
- Women.
- Women--Political activity.
- Germany.
- Women's rights--Germany.
- Women's rights.
- Feminism--Germany.
- Feminism.
- Marginality, Social--Germany.
- Marginality, Social.
- Democracy--Germany.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 277 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- One of the most significant aspects of the fall of East Germany in 1989, compared to that of other East European nations, was the presence of women demanding a political role in the newly emerging social order. Yet despite the determination of these women -- and of West German feminist groups -- to help shape the future of the German state, their influence remained, in the end, very limited. In Triumph of the Fatherland, political scientist Brigitte Young draws on in-depth interviews, archival sources, newspapers, and her own observations from 1989 to 1991 to study the goals, strategies, and eventual fate of the German women's movements during this tumultuous period.
- Contents:
- Introduction : feminisms and the German political regimes
- Political opportunity structures and feminist protest in thought and practice: the German historical legacy and women's mobilization in East and West Germany, 1945-1989
- The East German "stateless state" period and feminist mobilization
- The closing of the political opportunity structure and feminist differentiation
- A closed opportunity structure : German unification and "double gender marginalization"
- The East and West German women's movements and the German State
- Democratization without women : comparisons to other Eastern European Countries.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0472109480
- 0472085360
- OCLC:
- 39727811
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