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the United States and the two Germanys, 1945-1989
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hagemann, Karen > (ed.)
- Creator
- Michel, Sonya > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Evans, Jennifer V.
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- VS 1E 2014 - B
- Thesaurus
- rolgedrag, gender, identiteit, etniciteit, oorlog en vrede, tweede wereldoorlog, seksueel geweld, politiek, cultuur, krijgsmacht, dagelijks leven, sociale klasse, immigratie, mannelijkheid, huwelijken, gezinnen, seksualiteit, homoseksualiteit, Verenigde Staten, West-Duitsland, Oost-Duitsland, 20e eeuw, 1940-1949, 1950-1999
- Description
- This book examines gender politics during the post-World War II period and the Cold War in the United States and East and West Germany. The authors show how disruptions of older political and social patterns, exposure to new cultures, population shifts, and the rise of consumerism affected gender roles and identities. Comparing all three countries, chapters analyse the ways that gender figured into relations between victor and vanquished and shaped everyday life in both the Western and Soviet blocs. Topics include the gendering of the immediate aftermath of war: the military, politics, and changing masculinities in postwar societies: policies to restore the gender order and foster marriage and family: demobilization and the development of postwar welfare states: and debates over sexuality (gay and straight).
gender, race, and the politics of memory, 1880-1945
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jardins, Julie des
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B4819 - B
- Thesaurus
- gender, etniciteit, zwarte vrouwen, mannelijkheid, vrouwelijkheid, schrijvers, feminisme, zwart feminisme, vrouwengeschiedenis, toekomst, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Des Jardins explores the work of a wide variety of women historians, both professional and amateur, white and nonwhite. These historians addressed new questions and represented social groups traditionally omitted from the historical record, such as workers, African Americans, Native Americans, and religious minorities. Assessing the historical contributions of Mary Ritter Beard, Zora Neale Hurston, Angie Debo, Mari Sandoz, Lucy Salmon, Mary McLeod Bethune, Dorothy Porter, Nellie Neilson and many others, Des Jardins argues that women working within the confines of the historical enterprise collectively brought the new perspectives of social and cultural history to the study of a multifaceted American past.
why white working-class men put themselves —and the labor movement— in harm’s way
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Paap, Kris
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- VS 53 2006
- Thesaurus
- timmervrouwen, bouwvakkers, vakbonden, gender, sociale klasse, etniciteit, mannelijkheid, seksisme, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Kris Paap worked for nearly three years as a carpenter’s apprentice on a variety of job sites, closely observing her colleagues’ habits, expressions, and attitudes. As a woman in an overwhelmingly male and stereotypically 'macho' profession, Paap uses her experiences to reveal the ways that gender, class, and race interact in the construction industry. She shows how the stereotypes of construction workers and their overt displays of sexism, racism, physical strength, and homophobia are not 'just how they are,' but rather culturally and structurally mandated enactments of what it means to be a man and a worker in America. The significance of these worker performances is particularly clear in relation to occupational safety: when the pressures for demonstrating physical masculinity are combined with a lack of protection from firing, workers are forced to ignore safety procedures in order to prove that they are 'man enough' to do the job. Thus these mandated performances have real, and sometimes deadly, consequences for individuals, the entire working class, and the strength of the union movement.
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