Postwar Feminism in the Soviet Occupation Zone
Grit Bühler: Eigenmächtig, frauenbewegt, ausgebremst. Der Demokratische Frauenbund Deutschlands und seine Gründerinnen (1945–1949). 2022.
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https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2023.242Keywords:
Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschland, DDR, Women's Commitees, Postwar FeminismAbstract
In her study of the Democratic Women's Federation of Germany (Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschland, DFD), long considered a state-loyal organization of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED), Grit Bühler focuses on the first feminist years and the key figures who stimulated the awakening in the women's committees. The thesis of postwar feminism as it is known in the study of women's committees for the Western occupation zones after 1945 is guiding the analysis. Bühler illuminates how the protagonists brought together different women's political positions as a 'sisterly bond' in the Soviet occupation zone, and the increasing interventions of the SED. Thus, the early days of the DFD are brought to the fore for the first time as part of the history of the women's movement and feminism.
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