基本説明
Focuses on the consequences of post-communist transformation for women in eastern Germany and evaluates their responses.
Full Description
Since the unification of the DDR and the GDR, women living in the former East Germany have lost many of the advantages that came with a planned economy. This collection of essays examines the reinvented meaning of gender and the experience of East German women since unification.
Contents
Part 1 Employment and education in a reinvented gender regime: the future of female employment - a gendered gap in political discourse, Hildegard Maria Nickel; employment opportunities and labour market exclusion - towards a new pattern of gender stratification?, Sabine Schenk; gender and education in East Germany after unification, Rosalind M.O. Pritchard; gender and the limits of equality in East Germany, Eva Kolinsky. Part 2 Gender and families in the new risk environment: women and poverty in the German welfare state, Mechtild M. Matheja-Theaker.
