Revenge of the domestic
Subtitle: women, the family, and communism in the German Democratic Republic
By: Donna Harsch
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780691059297
Subjects: Women -- Germany (East) -- Social conditions; Family -- Germany (East); Socialism -- Germany (East)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-342) and index
Table of contents: title: The trying time : survival crises and political dilemmas under Soviet occupation; title: Constructing power : women and the political program of the Socialist Unity Party; title: Forging the female proletarian : women workers, production, and the culture of the shop floor; title: Restoring fertility : reproduction under the wings of mother state; title: Reforming taste : public services, private desires, and domestic labor; title: Reconstituting the family : domestic relations between tradition and change; title: Modernization and its discontents : state, society, and gender policy in the 1960s; title: Slouching toward Bethlehem