TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith, Tom
AB  - Without question, the East German National People’s Army was a profoundly masculine institution, not simply in terms of its overwhelmingly male makeup but in the traditional ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage that it sought to exemplify. Nonetheless, as this innovative study of the army’s cultural representations demonstrates, depictions of the military in East German film and literature were far more nuanced and ambivalent. Departing from past studies that have found in such depictions an unchanging, idealized masculinity, Representing the East German Soldier shows how cultural works both before and after reunification portrayed violence, physical vulnerability, military theatricality, and the powerful emotions and desires of conscripts to explore a surprisingly wide range of complex and contested masculinities.
KW  - History
KW  - Europe
KW  - Germany
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/ba91176b-935c-463d-b917-ac6ab6237ecf/external_content.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/44015
PB  - Berghahn Books
PY  - 2020
SN  - 9781789204636
TI  - Comrades in Arms : Military Masculinities in East German Culture
ER  - 
