Gender and the long postwar : the United States and the two Germanys, 1945-1989 / edited by Karen Hagemann, Sonya Michel.

Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press, [2014]

xii, 397 pages ; 23 cm

I. Gendering the Aftermath of War -- The "Big Rape": Sex and Sexual Violence, War, and Ocupation in German Post - World War II Memory and Imagination / Atina Grossmann -- Gender Roles in Ruins: German Women and Local Politics under American Occupation, 1945-1955 / Rebbecca Boehling -- Women's Peace Dividend: Demobilization adn Working-Class Women in Chicago, 1945-1953 / Laura McEnaney -- Teaching Democracy on the Big Screen: Gender and the Reeducation of Postwar Germans in A Foreign Affiar and The Big Lift / Ulrike Weckel -- II. The Military, Politics, and Changing Masculinities -- Banning the Soldier Hero: American Regulations, German Youth, and Changing Ideals of Manhood in Occupied Wurttemberg-Baden, 1945-1949 / Kathleen J. Nawyn -- Sending Young Men to the Barracks: West Germany's Struggle over the Establishment of New Armed Forces in the 1950s / Friederike Bruhofener -- Service by Other Means: Changing Perceptions of Military Service and Masculinity in the United States, 1940-1973 / Amy Rutenberg -- Man the Guns: Race, Masculinity, and Citizenship from World War II to the Civil Rights Movement / Steve Estes -- III. Restoring Families and Recasting Welfare States -- White on Departure? Race and War Bride Immigration to the United States after World War II / Angela Tudico -- Hot Lunches in the Cold War: The Politics of School Lunches in Postwar Divided Germany / Alice Weinreb -- Women, Family, and "Postwar": The Gendering of hte GDR's Welfare Dictatorship / Donna Harsch -- The Soldier-Breadwinner and the Army Family: Gender and Social Welfare in the Post-1945 US Military and Society / Jennifer Mittelstadt -- IV. Forging New Sexualities and Creating new Gender Identities -- The Liberal 1950s? Reinterpreting Postwar American Sexual Culture / Joanne Meyerowitz -- Private Acts, Public Anxieties: The Fight to Decriminalize Male Homosexuality in Postwar West Germany / Robert G. Moeller -- Homosexuality and the Politics of Masculinity in East Germany / Jennifer V. Evans

Includes bibliographical references and index.