This collection of contributions examines the inequities experienced by women occupying marginalized social positions within power relations. It addresses issues such as experiences of immigrant women of color, aging women and heteronormative constraints faced by lesbian women from different disciplines.
Historians of gender in Germany have tended to treat East and West Germany in isolation, with little attention paid to intersections and interrelationships between the two countries. This collection synthesizes the perspectives of entangled history and gender studies, and investigates the ways in which East and West German gender relations were culturally, socially, and politically intertwined. Chapters on historiography, politics, policies, social movements, sexuality and media.