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Love in the Time of Communism: Intimacy and Sexuality in the GDR
Josie McLellan
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Description for Love in the Time of Communism: Intimacy and Sexuality in the GDR
Paperback. This pioneering study explores the surprising extent and limits of the GDR's forgotten sexual revolution. Num Pages: 250 pages, 21 b/w illus. 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 412. Intimacy and Sexuality in the GDR. 250 pages, 21 b/w illus. 7 tables. This pioneering study explores the surprising extent and limits of the GDR's forgotten sexual revolution. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JHBK5. Dimension: 228 x 159 x 15. Weight: 404.
In the aftermath of the reunification of Germany one former dissident recalled nostalgically that under the East German regime 'we had more sex and we had more to laugh about'. Love in the Time of Communism is a fascinating history of the GDR's forgotten sexual revolution and its limits. Josie McLellan shows that under communism divorce rates soared, abortion become commonplace and the rate of births outside marriage was amongst the highest in Europe. Nudism went from ban to state-sponsored boom, and erotica became common currency in both the official economy and the black market. Public discussion of sexuality was, ... Read more
In the aftermath of the reunification of Germany one former dissident recalled nostalgically that under the East German regime 'we had more sex and we had more to laugh about'. Love in the Time of Communism is a fascinating history of the GDR's forgotten sexual revolution and its limits. Josie McLellan shows that under communism divorce rates soared, abortion become commonplace and the rate of births outside marriage was amongst the highest in Europe. Nudism went from ban to state-sponsored boom, and erotica became common currency in both the official economy and the black market. Public discussion of sexuality was, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521727617
SKU
V9780521727617
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About Josie McLellan
Josie McLellan is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Bristol. Her previous publications include Antifascism and Memory in East Germany: Remembering the International Brigades, 1945–1989 (2004).
Reviews for Love in the Time of Communism: Intimacy and Sexuality in the GDR
'An outstanding book - intriguing, illuminating, and offering entirely fresh perspectives on East German society.' Mary Fulbrook, University College London 'Myths about sexuality in East Germany abound, and Josie McLellan takes them on. From adolescent sexuality to sexual contentment within marriage, from same-sex desire to nudism and erotica, from single motherhood to Stasi surveillance - McLellan offers a well-researched and ... Read more