No Husband but Nevertheless Happy?

Authors

  • Nicole Kramer München/Institut für Zeitgeschichte München

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/461

Keywords:

Partnerschaft/Ehe, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

Kristen Plötz studies gender standardization in the early years of the Federal Republic of Germany and comes to surprising conclusions about a theme that it would seem had been exhausted. Based on her interviews with ten single women, she is able to show exactly where the primacy of the husband-based family model reaches its limits. However, she also concludes that even those women who lived without a husband oriented their lives on this model.

Published

2006-11-07

Issue

Section

Schwerpunkt