After Unity

Konrad Jarausch was Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His many publications include The Rush to German Unity (1994) and Students, Society, and Politics in Imperial Germany (1982).

• PrefaceIntroduction: Reshaping German Identities: Reflections on the Post-Unification DebateKonrad H. JarauschChapter 1. The Presence of the Past: Culture, Opinion, and Identity in GermanyKonrad H. Jarausch, Hinrich C. Seeba, and David P. ConradtChapter 2. Natives, Strangers, and Foreigners: Constituting Germans by Constructing OthersJeffrey Peck, Mitchell Ash, and Christiane LemkeChapter 3. East and West German Identities: United and Divided?Helga A. Welsh, Andreas Pickel, and Dorothy RosenbergChapter 4. Women, Men and Unification: Gender Politics and the Abortion Struggle Since 1989Joyce Mushaben, Geoffrey Giles, and Sara LennoxChapter 5. Germany and Europe: Finding an International RoleVolker Berghahn, Gregory Flynn, and Paul Michael LützelerPostscript: Creative Chaos: Concluding Thoughts on Interdisciplinary CooperationAndreas PickelList of ContributorsIndex

“What emerges from this collection is a picture of a complex society that was neither fully modern nor fully totalitarian ... The dense book provides and illuminating discussion of the difficulties inherent in characterizing the GDR and, in so doing, points the reader in directions that might prove more fruitful.” • German Studies Review