Love in the Time of Communism - Intimacy and Sexuality in the Gdr

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext This pioneering study explores the surprising extent and limits of the GDR's forgotten sexual revolution. Zusammenfassung This fascinating history explores the GDR's forgotten sexual revolution and its limits. Josie McLellan shows that although under communism divorce rates soared! abortion became commonplace and nudism went from ban to state-sponsored boom! public discussion of sexuality was tightly controlled and opportunities to challenge traditional gender roles were limited. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the East German sexual revolution; 2. 'A bit of freedom': sex and young people; 3. Marriage and monogamy; 4. 'The dictatorship of love': sex, love, and state hypocrisy; 5. Gay men, lesbians, and the struggle for the public sphere; 6. The naked republic: nudism; 7. Picturing sex: East German erotica; 8. Conclusion: space for love?

Product details

• Authors: Josie McLellan, Josie (University of Bristol) Mclellan, McLellan Josie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2011
• EAN: 9780521898911
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89891-1
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Sociology, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Sociology: sexual relations, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), East Germany, Ddr, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality