Socialist modern
Subtitle: East German everyday culture and politics
By: Katherine Pence and Paul Betts, editors.
Contributors: Pence, Katherine, 1968-; Betts, Paul, 1963-
Series: Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780472099740; 9780472069743
Subjects: Politics and culture -- Germany (East); Socialism and society.; Popular culture -- Germany (East).; Germany (East) -- Social life and customs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Homo munitus : the East German observed / Greg Eghigian; title: East Germany's sexual evolution / Dagmar Herzog; title: Building socialism at home : the case of East German interiors / Paul Betts; title: The travels of Bettina Humpel : one Stasi file and narratives of state and self in East Germany / Alon Confino; title: Youth as internal enemy : conflicts in the education dictatorship of the 1960s / Dorothee Wierling; title: "The benefits of health must spread among all" : international solidarity, health, and race in the East German encounter with the Third World / Young-Sun Hong; title: "Asociality" and modernity : the GDR as a welfare dictatorship / Thomas Lindenberger; title: The world of men's work, east and west / Alf Lüdtke; title: Shopping, sewing, networking, complaining : consumer culture and the relationship between state and society in the GDR / Judd Stitziel; title: Women on the verge : consumers between private desires and public crisis / Katherine Pence; title: Alternative rationalities, strange dreams, absurd utopias : on socialist advertising and market research / Ina Merkel; title: Re-presenting the socialist modern : museums and memory in the former GDR / Daphne Berdahl.