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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aHarsch, Donna
_eautore
245 1 0 _aRevenge of the Domestic :
_bWomen, the Family, and Communism in the German Democratic Republic /
_cDonna Harsch.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2006
300 _a1 online resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIllustrations --
_tTables --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tAbbreviations --
_tINTRODUCTION --
_tCHAPTER ONE. The Trying Time SURVIVAL CRISES AND POLITICAL DILEMMAS UNDER SOVIET OCCUPATION --
_tCHAPTER TWO. Constructing Power: Women and the Political Program of the Socialist Unity Party --
_tCHAPTER THREE. Forging the Female Proletarian: Women Workers, Production, and the Culture of the Shop Floor --
_tCHAPTER FOUR. Restoring Fertility: Reproduction under the Wings of Mother State --
_tCHAPTER FIVE. Reforming Taste: Public Services, Private Desires, and Domestic Labor --
_tCHAPTER SIX. Reconstituting the Family: Domestic Relations between Tradition and Change --
_tCHAPTER SEVEN. Modernization and Its Discontents: State, Society, and Gender in the 1960s --
_tSlouching toward Bethlehem --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
520 _aRevenge 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 interviews, statistical material, and evidence from archival research in Berlin, Potsdam, Leipzig, Merseburg, and Chemnitz to reconstruct the complex interplay between state policy toward women and the family on the one hand, and women's reactions to policy on the other. Donna Harsch demonstrates that women resisted state decisions as citizens, wageworkers, mothers, wives, and consumers, and that in every guise they maneuvered to overcome official neglect of the family. As state dependence on female employment increased, the book shows, the Communists began to respond to the insistence of women that the state pay attention to the family. In fits and starts, the party state begrudgingly retooled policy in a more consumerist and family-oriented direction. This "domestication" was partial, ambivalent, and barely acknowledged from above. It also had ambiguous, arguably regressive, effects on the private gender arrangements and attitudes of East Germans. Nonetheless, the economic and social consequences of this domestication were cumulatively powerful and, the book argues, gradually undermined the foundations of the GDR.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
650 0 _aFamilies
_zGermany (East)
650 0 _aSocialism
_zGermany (East)
650 0 _aWomen
_zGermany (East)
_xSocial conditions.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Europe / Germany.
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