Lebensgeschichtliche Identitätskonstruktionen ostdeutscher Männer
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Scholz, Sylka
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6335 - B
- Thesaurus
- identiteit, mannelijkheid, mannen, gelijke behandeling, arbeid, methoden van onderzoek, levensgeschiedenissen, constructiedenken, Oost-Duitsland, West-Duitsland
- Description
- Using biographical interviews Scholz analyses how East German men coped with the transformation of the labor system after the breakdown of the former German Democratic Republic, specifically how they dealt with the ambivalences and contradictions inherent in the policy of sexual equality pursued by the East German Government. Scholz focuses on three research questions. First: How were identities (re-)constructed by the interviewed men?: What impact do the interviewers and their gender have in this process? While using them, Scholz methodologically explores narrative interviews as a social practice in which biographies, social identity and gender are constructed while being influenced by the interviewer's gender. Third: How can individual and social processes of change be detected in the construction of a masculinity that emerged under the specific conditions of the GDR?