Socialist modern : East German everyday culture and politics / Katherine Pence and Paul Betts, editors.

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2008]

378 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.

Homo munitus : the East German observed / Greg Eghigian -- East Germany's sexual evolution / Dagmar Herzog -- Building socialism at home : the case of East German interiors / Paul Betts -- The travels of Bettina Humpel : one Stasi file and narratives of state and self in East Germany / Alon Confino -- Youth as internal enemy : conflicts in the education dictatorship of the 1960s / Dorothee Wierling -- "The benefits of health must spread among all" : international solidarity, health, and race in the East German encounter with the Third World / Young-Sun Hong -- "Asociality" and modernity : the GDR as a welfare dictatorship / Thomas Lindenberger -- The world of men's work, east and west / Alf Lüdtke -- Shopping, sewing, networking, complaining : consumer culture and the relationship between state and society in the GDR / Judd Stitziel -- Women on the verge : consumers between private desires and public crisis / Katherine Pence -- Alternative rationalities, strange dreams, absurd utopias : on socialist advertising and market research / Ina Merkel -- Re-presenting the socialist modern : museums and memory in the former GDR / Daphne Berdahl.

Includes bibliographical references and index.