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28%OFFDonna Harsch - Revenge of the Domestic: Women, the Family, and Communism in the German Democratic Republic - 9780691059303 - V9780691059303
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Revenge of the Domestic: Women, the Family, and Communism in the German Democratic Republic

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Description for Revenge of the Domestic: Women, the Family, and Communism in the German Democratic Republic Paperback. 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). Num Pages: 360 pages, 20 halftones. 24 tables. BIC Classification: HBJD; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
Revenge 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, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691059303
SKU
V9780691059303
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Ref
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About Donna Harsch
Donna Harsch is professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University. She specializes in twentieth-century German history.

Reviews for Revenge of the Domestic: Women, the Family, and Communism in the German Democratic Republic
"Harsch's new book is a valuable contribution to the burgeoning historiography of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Looking primarily at the developments during the course of the 1950s, she analyzes the ways that the East German leadership viewed gender issues... Harsch's detailed analysis assures that her book provides valuable insight into the social history of the GDR and the failure ... Read more

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