Gendering Post-1945 German History

Karen Hagemann is the James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on Modern German and European history and gender history. Her most recent publications include Gender and the Long Postwar: The United States and the Two Germanys, 1945–1989 (ed. with Sonya Michel, 2014).

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsPrefaceIntroduction: Gendering Post-1945 German History: EntanglementsKaren Hagemann, Donna Harsch, and Friederike Brühöfener PART I: GENDERING THE HISTORIOGRAPHYChapter 1. Entanglements of Gender, Politics, and Protest in the Historiography on the Two Post-1945 Germanys
Karen Hagemann and Donna HarschChapter 2. Entangled Gender Relations and Sexuality in the Historiography on the Two Post-1945 Germanys
Jennifer EvansChapter 3. Contact Zones and Boundary Objects: The Media and Entangled Representations of Gender
Erica CarterPART II: GENDER, POLITICS, AND POLICIESChapter 4. The Big Cleanup: Men, Women, and Rubble Clearance in Postwar East and West GermanyLeonie TreberChapter 5. Children, Church, and Rights: East and West German Protests against Family Law Reforms in the 1950s
Alexandria RubleChapter 6. Gendering Health Politics: East and West German Healthcare Systems in Comparison, 1950–1970
Donna HarschPART III: GENDERED RESISTANCE, PROTEST, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTSChapter 7. Under the Habit: Resistance of Catholic Sisters against East German State Authority in the 1950s
Kathryn C. JulianChapter 8. Finding Feminism: Rethinking Activism in the West German New Women’s Movement of the 1970s and 1980sSarah E. SummersChapter 9. Redefining the Political: The Gender of Activism in Grassroots Movements of the 1960s to 1980sBelinda DavisChapter 10. Connected Differences: Black German Feminists and Their Transnational Connections of the 1980s and 1990sTiffany N. FlorvilPART IV: GENDER RELATIONS AND SEXUALITYChapter 11. Domestic Abuse and Women’s Lives: East and West Policies during the 1960s and 1970sJane FreelandChapter 12. Searching for Identity: 1950s Homophile Politics in West Germany and Its Roots in the Weimar Homosexual MovementClayton J. WhisnantChapter 13. Contested Masculinities: Debates about Homosexuality in the West German Bundeswehr in 1960s and 1970s
Friederike BrühöfenerPART V: THE MEDIA AND REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDERChapter 14. In the Presence of the Past, in the Shadow of the “Other”: Women Journalists in Postwar GermanyDeborah BartonChapter 15. Entangled Femininities: Contested Representations of Women in the East and West German Illustrated Press of the 1950s
Jennifer LynnChapter 16. Gendered Orientalism: Representations of “the Turkish” in the West German Press of the 1970s and 1980s
Brittany LehmanIndex of NamesIndex of Subjects

“This volume achieves a tremendous feat in its breadth, though its forte lies in its diverse contexts, uses, and understandings of gender—including its co-constituency with race and sexuality… This collection offers a much-needed re-narrativization of a divided Germany that centers gender, race, and sex in the shaping of citizenry during postwar nation-making.” • Feminist German Studies“The volume as a whole offers an impressive range and breadth of research and is both robust and accessible. The choice of the editors to invite younger scholars to contribute chapters is a further strength of the volume, the result being a clear willingness to question previous approaches and to open new avenues for research.” • German History“[This volume] deals with a fascinating but largely by historical research neglected field…[it] convincingly does justice to its claim enrich traditional historiography and to treat contemporary history as gender history.” • Sehepunkte“Applied to the Cold War, this volume shows in a striking way how ubiquitous and effective gender was as a regulatory category in all areas of political, cultural, and social life in the divided Germany. With its inspiring take, its analytically precise approach, and the various thematical focal points, the book offers a well structured and most interesting panorama of the time after 1945.” • H-Soz-Kult“The novel contributions in this volume represent truly innovative research and impressive new findings well contextualized by theory. The editors have done a brilliant job of reviewing the histography across the areas of Germany, history, and gender.” • Myra Max Ferree, University of Wisconsin-Madison“Gendering Post-1945 German History provides real analytical insights and excellent state-of-the-literature essays that otherwise would be inaccessible to most readers. The scholarship in this volume will be essential for specialists and students alike.” • Elizabeth Heineman, University of Iowa