Reinventing gender : women in Eastern Germany since unification

Author(s)

• Kolinsky, Eva
• Nickel, Hildegard Maria

Bibliographic Information

Reinventing gender : women in Eastern Germany since unification

edited by Eva Kolinsky and Hildegard Maria Nickel

Frank Cass, 2003

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Since the unification of the DDR and the GDR, women living in the former East Germany have lost many of the advantages that came with a planned economy. This collection of essays examines the reinvented meaning of gender and the experience of East German women since unification.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Employment and education in a reinvented gender regime: the future of female employment - a gendered gap in political discourse, Hildegard Maria Nickel
• employment opportunities and labour market exclusion - towards a new pattern of gender stratification?, Sabine Schenk
• gender and education in East Germany after unification, Rosalind M.O. Pritchard
• gender and the limits of equality in East Germany, Eva Kolinsky. Part 2 Gender and families in the new risk environment: women and poverty in the German welfare state, Mechtild M. Matheja-Theaker.

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Details

• NCID: BA64231131
• ISBN:
  • 0714683116
• LCCN: 2002071649
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; Portland, Or.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 284 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HQ1630.5
  • DC21 : 305.42/09
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Women -- Germany (East) -- Social conditions
  • LCSH : Gender identity -- Germany (East)
  • LCSH : Germany (East) -- Social conditions
  • LCSH : Post-communism -- Germany (East)