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Ten years after the wall : East German women in transition?

Verfasst von: Dodds, Dinah
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London [u.a.]: 2003 , 261 - 276 S.

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Einrichtung: Ariadne | Wien
Verfasst von: Dodds, Dinah
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Jahr: 2003
Sprache: Englisch
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Over a period of 10 years following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the author conducted interviews with 18 women on four separate occasions to determine their response to unification. The fourth set of interviews, which took place during the spring of 1999, revealed that the women had adopted one of three different ways of adapting to unification. In the first and largest group wre women who were more engaged, active and upbeat about their new lives. A second, smaller group consisted of women who were frustrated, discouraged and bitter and had turned inward. Women in the third group were involved in their new lives but exhausted by their efforts to maintain their involvement. the most significant factor in defining these women's different experiences appaears to have been the ability to maintain a sense of community. These biographies show that women who successfully adapted to unification held onto the community they had enjoyed in the GDR or else created it anew, while those who were discouraged and bitter had lost connection with the wider community
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