Gender and the long postwar : the United States and the two Germanys, 1945-1989 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Hagemann, Karen (Editor), Michel, Sonya, 1942- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Baltimore : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Women > Germany (West) > Social conditions. Women > Germany (East) > Social conditions. Women > United States > Social conditions > 20th century. Sex role > Germany (West) > History. Sex role > Germany (East) > History. Sex role > United States > History > 20th century. Social change > Germany (West) > History. Social change > Germany (East) > History. Social change > United States > History. World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > United States. World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Germany.

Table of Contents:

I. Gendering the Aftermath of War
The "Big Rape": Sex and Sexual Violence, War, and Ocupation in German Post - World War II Memory and Imagination / Atina Grossmann
Gender Roles in Ruins: German Women and Local Politics under American Occupation, 1945-1955 / Rebbecca Boehling
Women's Peace Dividend: Demobilization adn Working-Class Women in Chicago, 1945-1953 / Laura McEnaney
Teaching Democracy on the Big Screen: Gender and the Reeducation of Postwar Germans in A Foreign Affiar and The Big Lift / Ulrike Weckel
II. The Military, Politics, and Changing Masculinities
Banning the Soldier Hero: American Regulations, German Youth, and Changing Ideals of Manhood in Occupied Wurttemberg-Baden, 1945-1949 / Kathleen J. Nawyn
Sending Young Men to the Barracks: West Germany's Struggle over the Establishment of New Armed Forces in the 1950s / Friederike Bruhofener
Service by Other Means: Changing Perceptions of Military Service and Masculinity in the United States, 1940-1973 / Amy Rutenberg
Man the Guns: Race, Masculinity, and Citizenship from World War II to the Civil Rights Movement / Steve Estes
III. Restoring Families and Recasting Welfare States
White on Departure? Race and War Bride Immigration to the United States after World War II / Angela Tudico
Hot Lunches in the Cold War: The Politics of School Lunches in Postwar Divided Germany / Alice Weinreb
Women, Family, and "Postwar": The Gendering of hte GDR's Welfare Dictatorship / Donna Harsch
The Soldier-Breadwinner and the Army Family: Gender and Social Welfare in the Post-1945 US Military and Society / Jennifer Mittelstadt
IV. Forging New Sexualities and Creating new Gender Identities
The Liberal 1950s? Reinterpreting Postwar American Sexual Culture / Joanne Meyerowitz
Private Acts, Public Anxieties: The Fight to Decriminalize Male Homosexuality in Postwar West Germany / Robert G. Moeller
Homosexuality and the Politics of Masculinity in East Germany / Jennifer V. Evans