Format:
XII, 284 S.
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graph. Darst.
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25 cm
ISBN:
0714653772
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0714683116
Content:
The book focuses on the consequences of post-communist transformation for women in Eastern Germany and evaluates their responses. In the GDR era, women were required to take on employment while the state provided child care and financial incentives for mothers. Since the duty to work applied to men as well as women, women did not perceive their situation as disadvantaged or gender as a barrier to their socio-economic participation. Gender was not linked with inequality and there was no feminist discourse, although the hidden reality was that womens issues lagged behind those of men. In the post-communist era gender emerged as a new divide. While the politicians had expected Eastern German women would focus on their families, they confounded policy-makers by refusing to regard homemaking as an acceptable lifestyle. However, since unification women have had fewer employment opportunities and lower job security, gender has been reinvented in two ways: a sense of injustice among women and their bid for labour market inclusion, and the experience of unfamiliar barriers to employment on the grounds of gender. In recasting their biographies by postponing marriage and childbirth and developing new strategies of risk-management to retain their place in the newly competitive labour market, women are trying to avoid the pitfalls of gender and take advantage of the opportunities in the post-communist setting. Content: Part I. Employment and education in reinvented gender regime (Nickel, Hildegard Maria: The Future of Female Employment: A Gendered Gap in Political Discourse. - Schenk, Sabine: Employment Opportunities and Labour Market Exclusion: Towards a New Pattern of Gender Stratification? - Pritchard, Rosalind M. O.: Gender and Education in East Germany after Unification. - Kolinsky, Eva: Gender and the Limits of Equality in East Germany). - Part II. Gender and families in the new risk environment (Matheja-Theaker, Mechthild M.: Women and Poverty in the German Welfare State. - Schuster, Beate/Traub, Angelika: Single Mothers in East Germany. - Beck, Vanessa: Female Unemployment in the East: Or, How to Stay in the Labour Market. - Keddi, Barbara/Pfeil, Patricia/Strehmel, Petra/Wittmann, Svendy: Beyond Typical Life-Plans: Young Women's Themes of Life in East and West Germany. - Uhlendorff, Harald: Family and Family Orientation in East Germany). - Part III. Gender in the reinvented Politics of East Germany (Rueschemeyer, Marilyn: Women in Politics in Post-Communist Eas ...
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Reinventing Gender after the GDR 1 -- Eva Kolinsky and Hildegard Maria Nickel --PART I. EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION IN A REINVENTED GENDER REGIME --Chapter One -- The Future of Female Employment: A Gendered Gap in Political 31 -- Discourse -- Hildegard Maria Nickel --Chapter Two -- Employment Opportunities and Labour Market Exclusion: 53 -- Towards a New Pattern of Gender Stratification? -- Sabine Schenk --Chapter Three -- Gender and Education in East Germany after Unification 78 -- Rosalind M. O. Pritchard --Chapter Four -- Gender and the Limits of Equality in East Germany 100 -- Eva Kolinsky PART II. GENDER AND FAMILIES IN THE NEW RISK ENVIRONMENT --Chapter Five -- Women and Poverty in the German Welfare State 131 -- Mechthild M. Matheja-Theaker --Chapter Six -- Single Mothers in East Germany 151 -- Beate Schuster and Angelika Traub --Chapter Seven -- Female Unemployment in the East: Or, How to Stay in the 172 -- Labour Market -- Vanessa Beck --Chapter Eight -- Beyond Typical Life-Plans: Young Women's Themes of Life in 190 -- East and West Germany -- Barbara Keddi, Patricia Pfeil, Petra Strehmel and Svendy Wittmann --Chapter Nine -- Family and Family Orientation in East Germany 209 -- Harald Uhlendorff --PART III. GENDER IN THE REINVENTED POLITICS OF EAST GERMANY --Chapter Ten -- Women in Politics in Post-Communist East Germany 231 -- Marilyn Rueschemeyer --Chapter Eleven -- Young Women in Right-Wing Groups and Organisations in East 250 -- Germany -- Karin Weiss and Katrin Isermann --Index 277
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Sociology
Keywords:
Deutschland
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Sozioökonomischer Wandel
;
Frau
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Soziale Situation
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Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0d7m4-aa
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy041/2002071649.html
Author information:
Kolinsky, Eva 1940-2005
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