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Sisters in Arms: Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968
Katharina Karcher
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Description for Sisters in Arms: Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968
Hardback. Drawing on a wealth of new source material, Sisters in Arms gives a bracing account of how radical feminism was enacted by key German leftist organizations, such as the infamous Red Army Faction and June 2 Movement. Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: 204 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFGW; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; JFFK; JPW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Few figures in modern German history are as central to the public memory of radical protest than Ulrike Meinhof, but she was only the most prominent of the countless German women-and militant male feminists-who supported and joined in revolutionary actions from the 1960s onward. Sisters in Arms gives a bracing account of how feminist ideas were enacted by West German leftist organizations from the infamous Red Army Faction to less celebrated groups such as the Red Zora. It analyzes their confrontational and violent tactics in challenging the abortion ban, opposing violence against women, and campaigning for solidarity with Third World ... Read more
Few figures in modern German history are as central to the public memory of radical protest than Ulrike Meinhof, but she was only the most prominent of the countless German women-and militant male feminists-who supported and joined in revolutionary actions from the 1960s onward. Sisters in Arms gives a bracing account of how feminist ideas were enacted by West German leftist organizations from the infamous Red Army Faction to less celebrated groups such as the Red Zora. It analyzes their confrontational and violent tactics in challenging the abortion ban, opposing violence against women, and campaigning for solidarity with Third World ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Monographs in German History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
178
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785335341
SKU
V9781785335341
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About Katharina Karcher
Katharina Karcher is Schroder Research Associate and Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of German and Dutch at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include feminist theory, European women's movements, and the histories of protest, extremism and violence in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Reviews for Sisters in Arms: Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968
Karcher offers a refreshing perspective on the history of the New Women's Movement in West Germany and its relationship to militancy in this long-overdue study. Any future scholarship on feminist activism in Germany will need to consider this provocative and revealing book.
Patricia Melzer, Temple University
Patricia Melzer, Temple University