Review of: Anna Schnädelbach: Kriegerwitwen. Lebensbewältigung zwischen Arbeit und Familie in Westdeutschland nach 1945. Frankfurt am Main u.a.: Campus Verlag 2009.
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https://doi.org/10.14766/790Keywords:
Familie, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Geschlecht, GenderAbstract
In her dissertation, Anna Schnädelbach examines the individual life-coping strategies of war widows, their latitude and their experience with the practical application of West German war victim provisions after 1945. By conjoining historical approaches based in experience with historical discourse analysis the author is able to connect an examination of these war widows as acting subjects with an analysis of contemporary debates on the war widows’ situation and their behavior toward central contentious areas: provision, marriage/family, and employment. It becomes clear how the women appropriated those different discourses affecting them, utilized these to articulate their own interests, and activated their own social and cultural capital in their conflict with public authorities.
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2009-10-16
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