TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leask,Phil
TI  - Friendship without Borders: Women's Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany 
SN  - 9781789206555
U1  - 920.720943 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Female friendship
KW  - Germany
KW  - Schönebeck (Schönebeck)
KW  - Germans
KW  - National characteristics, German
KW  - Women
KW  - Germany (East)
KW  - Biography
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - HISTORY / Social History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History (General), Sociology, Gender Studies and Sexuality
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; List of Abbreviations --; The Schönebeck Women and Where They Went --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. From Schoolgirls to Young Women --; Chapter 2. Grown Up --; Chapter 3. No Longer Young --; Chapter 4. Turning Fifty --; Chapter 5. Toward Retirement --; Chapter 6. Reunited? --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Across half a century, from the division of Germany through the end of the Cold War, a cohort of thirty women from the small German town of Schönebeck in what used to be the GDR circulated among themselves a remarkable collective archive of their lives: a Rundbrief, or bulletin, containing hundreds of letters and photographs. This book draws on that unprecedented resource, complemented by a set of interviews, to paint a rich portrait of “ordinary” life in postwar Germany. It shows how these women—whether reflecting on their experiences as Nazi-era schoolchildren or witnessing reunification—were united by their complex interactions with official power and their commitment to sustaining a shared German identity as they made the most of their everyday lives in both the GDR and the Federal Republic
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789206562?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789206562
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789206562/original
ER  -