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dc.contributor.authorFreeland, Jane
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-09T12:28:58Z
dc.date.available2024-04-09T12:28:58Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89742
dc.description.abstractFeminist Transformations is a history of women’s activism against domestic violence in divided Berlin between 1968 and 2002. Situating domestic violence activism within a broader history of feminism in post-war Germany, this book shows how feminists in West and then East Berlin campaigned against domestic violence as a key issue of women’s inequality. Feminists exposed the harmful gender norms that left women unprotected and vulnerable to abuse in the home and called for this to change. Indeed, domestic violence has been one of the issues most effectively addressed by the women’s movement in Germany. Starting in West Berlin, women’s shelters have spread throughout the country, and up to 45,000 women a year turn to emergency housing in Germany, with many more accessing helplines and crisis centres. This book traces the evolution of this movement both across political division and reunification and from grassroots campaign to established, professionalized social service. In doing so, it brings the histories of feminism in East and West Berlin together for the first time and explores how feminism successfully changed women’s rights in Germany. But it also asks what popular and political support for domestic violence activism has meant for feminism and for the advancement of women’s rights more broadly. It reveals the limitations of gender equality as advancements in women’s rights were often built on the reassertion of patriarchal gender roles.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBritish Academy Monographsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls::JBSF11 Feminism and feminist theoryen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999en_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Europeen_US
dc.subject.otherFeminism Germany History Domestic Violence Division Reunification Gender Equalityen_US
dc.titleFeminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlinen_US
dc.title.alternative1968-2002en_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5871/bacad/9780197267110.001.0001en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedByb9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2en_US
oapen.relation.isFundedBy1f9d9f09-ced0-41ef-ba7d-e669f14238d1en_US
oapen.pages249en_US
oapen.place.publicationOxforden_US


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