Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin 1968-2002

Feminist Transformations is a history of women’s activism against domestic violence in divided Berlin between 1968 and 2002. Situating domestic violence activism within a broader history of feminism in post-war Germany, this book shows how feminists in West and then East Berlin campaigned against do...

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Main Author: Freeland, Jane
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2022
Series:British Academy Monographs
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520 |a Feminist Transformations is a history of women’s activism against domestic violence in divided Berlin between 1968 and 2002. Situating domestic violence activism within a broader history of feminism in post-war Germany, this book shows how feminists in West and then East Berlin campaigned against domestic violence as a key issue of women’s inequality. Feminists exposed the harmful gender norms that left women unprotected and vulnerable to abuse in the home and called for this to change. Indeed, domestic violence has been one of the issues most effectively addressed by the women’s movement in Germany. Starting in West Berlin, women’s shelters have spread throughout the country, and up to 45,000 women a year turn to emergency housing in Germany, with many more accessing helplines and crisis centres. This book traces the evolution of this movement both across political division and reunification and from grassroots campaign to established, professionalized social service. In doing so, it brings the histories of feminism in East and West Berlin together for the first time and explores how feminism successfully changed women’s rights in Germany. But it also asks what popular and political support for domestic violence activism has meant for feminism and for the advancement of women’s rights more broadly. It reveals the limitations of gender equality as advancements in women’s rights were often built on the reassertion of patriarchal gender roles.