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oapen-20.500.12657-897422024-04-10T02:22:03Z Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin Freeland, Jane Feminism Germany History Domestic Violence Division Reunification Gender Equality thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls::JBSF11 Feminism and feminist theory thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999 thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Europe Feminist Transformations is a history of women’s activism against domestic violence in divided Berlin between 1968 and 2002. Situating domestic violence activism within a broader history of feminism in post-war Germany, this book shows how feminists in West and then East Berlin campaigned against domestic violence as a key issue of women’s inequality. Feminists exposed the harmful gender norms that left women unprotected and vulnerable to abuse in the home and called for this to change. Indeed, domestic violence has been one of the issues most effectively addressed by the women’s movement in Germany. Starting in West Berlin, women’s shelters have spread throughout the country, and up to 45,000 women a year turn to emergency housing in Germany, with many more accessing helplines and crisis centres. This book traces the evolution of this movement both across political division and reunification and from grassroots campaign to established, professionalized social service. In doing so, it brings the histories of feminism in East and West Berlin together for the first time and explores how feminism successfully changed women’s rights in Germany. But it also asks what popular and political support for domestic violence activism has meant for feminism and for the advancement of women’s rights more broadly. It reveals the limitations of gender equality as advancements in women’s rights were often built on the reassertion of patriarchal gender roles. 2024-04-09T12:28:58Z 2024-04-09T12:28:58Z 2022 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89742 eng British Academy Monographs application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9780197267110.pdf https://global.oup.com/academic/product/feminist-transformations-and-domestic-violence-activism-in-divided-berlin-1968-2002-9780197267110 Oxford University Press 10.5871/bacad/9780197267110.001.0001 10.5871/bacad/9780197267110.001.0001 b9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2 1f9d9f09-ced0-41ef-ba7d-e669f14238d1 249 Oxford British Academy The British Academy open access
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Feminist Transformations is a history of women’s activism against domestic violence in divided Berlin between 1968 and 2002. Situating domestic violence activism within a broader history of feminism in post-war Germany, this book shows how feminists in West and then East Berlin campaigned against domestic violence as a key issue of women’s inequality. Feminists exposed the harmful gender norms that left women unprotected and vulnerable to abuse in the home and called for this to change. Indeed, domestic violence has been one of the issues most effectively addressed by the women’s movement in Germany. Starting in West Berlin, women’s shelters have spread throughout the country, and up to 45,000 women a year turn to emergency housing in Germany, with many more accessing helplines and crisis centres. This book traces the evolution of this movement both across political division and reunification and from grassroots campaign to established, professionalized social service. In doing so, it brings the histories of feminism in East and West Berlin together for the first time and explores how feminism successfully changed women’s rights in Germany. But it also asks what popular and political support for domestic violence activism has meant for feminism and for the advancement of women’s rights more broadly. It reveals the limitations of gender equality as advancements in women’s rights were often built on the reassertion of patriarchal gender roles.
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