Beschäftigung und Arbeitsmarkt

Lutz, Burkart; Grünert, Holle

doi:10.1007/978-3-663-09770-9_6

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“…At present, it is still an open question as to what this development means for personal partnership as well as for the social roles for men and women in Germany. The rates of unemployment particularly concerning women in East Germany are currently exceptionally high (Lutz and Grünert 2001)-this cannot be an effect only of excessively high employment rates during the GDR era. This must have also been caused by a factor of changed gender images and a change in the rules of personnel management in small and large businesses.…”

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Hegemonic Masculinities in East and West Germany (German Democratic Republic and Federal Republic of Germany)

Brandes

2007

Men and Masculinities

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Proceeding from Connell's concept of hegemonic masculinity, this article examines the effect of differing social structures and culturally dominant patterns on masculinities in the German states, separated until 1989, German Democratic Republic and Federal Republic of Germany. The article starts with interviews with East German men, who were questioned about their understanding of masculinity and their view of the differences compared with West German men. The results of the interviews are analyzed against the background of the differing social developments in both German countries. Two different hegemonic patterns are identified: the hegemonic masculinity in West Germany is described as a pattern oriented on the lifestyle and aesthetic standard of modern middle classes and transnational entrepreneurship, while the hegemonic masculinity in the former German Democratic Republic is shaped through a proletarian-petty bourgeois lifestyle and taste. The thesis is formulated that after the unification of the two countries, the proletarian-petty bourgeois pattern lost its hegemonic role and, compared with the West German pattern of masculinity, has become marginalized.

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Section: Conclusion Perspectives and Open Questionsmentioning

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Hegemonic Masculinities in East and West Germany (German Democratic Republic and Federal Republic of Germany)

Brandes

2007

Men and Masculinities

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“…Overall, the employment figure dropped from 9.61 million in 1989 to 6.259 million in 1993. 39 The official unemployment rate reached 1.175 million in 1993 with the conditions of millions of others masked through make-work programs, part-time employment, training programs, and early retirement incentives. According to Sabine Schenk, East German women were especially hard hit in the transition as they were incorporated into the West German gender politics of work that continued to emphasize to a much greater extent a single (usually male) wage earner model of family support.…”

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Gender and the Solvency of Professionalism: Eastern German Journalism before and after 1989

Boyer¹

2006

East European Politics and Societies

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In this article, the author examines the intersection of gender, professionalism, and post-socialist transitions in East-Central Europe through a case study of the gender politics of journalistic labor in eastern Germany before and after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic from 1989 to 1990. Beginning with the concrete ethnographic problem that gender tends to be marginalized within eastern German journalists' contemporary narratives of professional experience and transition, the historical study offers clear evidence of the gendering of professional life both before and after 1989, and even of a notable shift in models of professional femininity. In the course of the article, the author builds toward the argument that the relative inattention to gender in post-socialist professional transitions can be retraced to what he describes as the “solvent” effect of professionalism upon social knowledge. By this, he means that professional economies of discourse and practice tend to subvert other dimensions of social knowledge (including gendered knowledge) in favor of professional identifications and meanings.

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Neue Perspektiven auf „den Osten“ jenseits von Verurteilung und Verklärung – Eine Einleitung

Matthäus

Kubiak

2015

Der Osten

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Beschäftigung und Arbeitsmarkt

Cited by 5 publications

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Hegemonic Masculinities in East and West Germany (German Democratic Republic and Federal Republic of Germany)

Hegemonic Masculinities in East and West Germany (German Democratic Republic and Federal Republic of Germany)

Gender and the Solvency of Professionalism: Eastern German Journalism before and after 1989

Neue Perspektiven auf „den Osten“ jenseits von Verurteilung und Verklärung – Eine Einleitung

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