Reinventing Gender. Women in Eastern Germany since Unification.

Sonst. Personen	Kolinsky, Eva (Hrsg.); Nickel, Hildegard Maria (Hrsg.)
Titel	Reinventing Gender. Women in Eastern Germany since Unification. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Das Geschlecht neu erfinden. Frauen in Ostdeutschland nach der Vereinigung.
Quelle	London; Portland: Cass (2003), XII, 284 S.Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Zusatzinformation	Inhaltsverzeichnis Verlagsangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	0-7146-8311-6
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Bildungschance; Chancengleichheit; Gender Mainstreaming; Einstellung (Psy); Lebensplanung; Familie; Frau; Geschlechterbeziehung; Geschlechtsspezifischer Unterschied; Frauenpolitik; Politische Einstellung; Sozialer Status; Sozialstruktur; Transformation; Arbeitslosigkeit; Arbeitsmarkt; Beruf; Berufstätigkeit; Beschäftigungspolitik; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; Karriere; Benachteiligung; Biografie; Geschlechterverteilung; Geschlechtsspezifik; Tradition; Allein erziehende Mutter; Deutschland; Deutschland-DDR; Deutschland-Östliche Länder
Abstract	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 East Germany. - Weiss, Karin/Isermann, Katrin: Young Women in Right-Wing Groups and Organisations in East Germany) (HoF/text adopted).
Erfasst von	Institut für Hochschulforschung (HoF) an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Update	2005_(CD)