Review of: Astrid Baerwolf: Kinder, Kinder! Mutterschaft und Erwerbstätigkeit in Ostdeutschland. Eine Ethnografie im Generationenvergleich. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2014.
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https://doi.org/10.14766/1174Keywords:
Arbeit, Beruf, DDR, Familie, Feminismus, Generationen, Gleichstellung, Mutterschaft, Wohlfahrtsstaat, Gender, GeschlechtAbstract
The shifts in the interpretative frames around the narrative of the full-time working mother in East Germany, analyzed in generational comparison, are at the center of this study. The following reframings are detected: The GDR-mothers had an ambivalently affirmative attitude towards this narrative, whereas the mothers of the Wende generation approached it with incorporated self-evidence, full-time work was desired and lived. However, in the post-Wende generation it is up for renegotiation, has become optional, in the interpretations of the mothers. Astrid Baerwolf’s study fills a research gap by carefully examining the myth of the full-time working mother in the GDR and in the present age eastern states of Germany.
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