• Admin Login
    View Item 
    •   Home
    • Faculty of Social Sciences
    • Faculty of Social Sciences
    • View Item
    •   Home
    • Faculty of Social Sciences
    • Faculty of Social Sciences
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of WIRECommunitiesTitleAuthorsIssue DateSubmit DateSubjectsTypesJournalDepartmentPublisherThis CollectionTitleAuthorsIssue DateSubmit DateSubjectsTypesJournalDepartmentPublisher

    Administrators

    Admin Login

    Local Links

    AboutThe University LibraryOpen Access Publications PolicyDeposit LicenceCOREWIRE Copyright and Reuse Information

    Statistics

    Display statistics

    Young Women in Right-Wing Groups and Organisations in East Germany

    • CSV
    • RefMan
    • EndNote
    • BibTex
    • RefWorks
    Authors
    Weiss, Karin
    Issue Date
    2002
    
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    "Reinventing Gender" 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 women's issues lagged behind those of men. In the post-communist era gender emerged as a new divide. While the politicians had expected that 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.
    Citation
    In: Kolinksy, Eva and Nickel, H.M. (Eds.), Reinventing Gender: Women in Eastern Germany Since Unification, 250-275
    Publisher
    Abingdon: Routledge (a Taylor & Francis imprint)
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27216
    Additional Links
    http://www.routledge.com/books/Reinventing-Gender-isbn9780714683119
    Type
    Chapter in book
    Language
    en
    ISBN
    0714653772
    978-0714653778
    Collections
    Faculty of Social Sciences

    entitlement

     
    DSpace software (copyright © 2002 - 2023)  DuraSpace
    Quick Guide | Contact Us
    Open Repository is a service operated by 
    Atmire NV
     

    Export search results

    The export option will allow you to export the current search results of the entered query to a file. Different formats are available for download. To export the items, click on the button corresponding with the preferred download format.

    By default, clicking on the export buttons will result in a download of the allowed maximum amount of items.

    To select a subset of the search results, click "Selective Export" button and make a selection of the items you want to export. The amount of items that can be exported at once is similarly restricted as the full export.

    After making a selection, click one of the export format buttons. The amount of items that will be exported is indicated in the bubble next to export format.