Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Contributors viii
5. Preface x
6. Introduction. Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements 1
7. PART I GENDERING THE HISTORIOGRAPHY
8. CHAPTER 1 Entanglements of Gender, Politics, and Protest in the Historiography on the Two Post-1945 Germanys 19
9. CHAPTER 2 Entangled Gender Relations and Sexuality in the Historiography on the Two Post-1945 Germanys 45
10. CHAPTER 3 Contact Zones and Boundary Objects The Media and Entangled Representations of Gender 67
11. PART II GENDER, POLITICS, AND POLICIES
12. CHAPTER 4 The Big Cleanup Men, Women, and Rubble Clearance in Postwar East and West Germany 91
13. CHAPTER 5 Children, Church, and Rights East and West German Protests against Family Law Reforms in the 1950s 115
14. CHAPTER 6 Gendering Health Politics East and West German Healthcare Systems in Comparison, 1950–70 136
15. PART III GENDERED RESISTANCE, PROTEST, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
16. CHAPTER 7 Under the Habit Resistance of Catholic Sisters against East German State Authority in the 1950s 159
17. CHAPTER 8 Finding Feminism Rethinking Activism in the West German New Women’s Movement of the 1970s and 1980s 184
18. CHAPTER 9 Redefining the Political The Gender of Activism in Grassroots Movements of the 1960s to 1980s 207
19. CHAPTER 10 Connected Differences Black German Feminists and Their Transnational Connections in the 1980s and 1990s 229
20. PART IV GENDER RELATIONS AND SEXUALITY
21. CHAPTER 11 Domestic Abuse and Women’s Lives East and West Policies during the 1960s and 1970s 251
22. CHAPTER 12 Searching for Identity 1950s Homophile Politics in West Germany and Its Roots in the Weimar Homosexual Movement 274
23. CHAPTER 13 Contested Masculinities Debates about Homosexuality in the West German Bundeswehr in the 1960s and 1970s 295
24. PART V THE MEDIA AND REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER
25. CHAPTER 14 In the Presence of the Past, in the Shadow of the “Other” Women Journalists in Postwar Germany 315
26. CHAPTER 15 Entangled Femininities Contested Representations of Women in the East and West German Illustrated Press of the 1950s 337
27. CHAPTER 16 Gendered Orientalism Representations of “the Turkish” in the West German Press of the 1970s and 1980s 362
28. Index of Names 382
29. Index of Subjects 383