Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided - Berlin, 1968 200

Feminist Transformations examines the history of feminist activism against domestic violence in divided Berlin. Centred on this key issue of gender inequality, the book explores how feminists advanced women's rights in Germany. More broadly, it reflects critically on what these advancements have meant for feminism and gender justice.

List of contents

• 1: The Origins of the Women's Shelter Movement


• 2: The Cost of Political Support


• 3: Race, Class and Everyday Life in the Shelter


• 4: Domestic Violence and Women's Lives under Socialism


• 5: Feminism and Domestic Violence Activism in the GDR


• 6: The Possibilities of Feminism after Reunification

About the author

Jane Freeland is a Lecturer in History and Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. Her research examines the history of feminism in Germany and Europe in the twentieth century, with a particular focus on feminist activism against domestic violence and feminism and the media.

Summary

Feminist Transformations examines the history of feminist activism against domestic violence in divided Berlin. Centred on this key issue of gender inequality, the book explores how feminists advanced women's rights in Germany. More broadly, it reflects critically on what these advancements have meant for feminism and gender justice.

Additional text

Jane Freeland has written an ambitious book about a field of the social history of the double Germany and the reunified Federal Republic that is still unfairly viewed as an addendum. It shows that the analysis of the interactions between, firstly, feminist activists, secondly, media representatives, thirdly, state actors and, fourthly, the addressees of the violence protection initiatives, sharpen and sometimes blind central questions of German history since the 1960s can illuminate the spot.

Product details

• Authors: Freeland , Jane Freeland, Jane (German Historical Institute London Freeland, Jane (Lecturer in History and Fellow Freeland, Freeland Jane
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9780197267110
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726711-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: British Academy Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Germany, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Feminism and feminist theory, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General