The 1950s have passed into the history books as the period of the Federal Republic of Germany's so-called "economic miracle"; yet attention to women's roles in economic reconstruction has until now been negligible. In this book, Erica Carter explores how the development of a "social market economy" after 1949 gave a new centrality to consumers as key players in the economic life of the nation, and, in that process, gave women a new public significance.Public attention focused in particular on the nation's housewives, who were to train the populace for entry into a new world of consumer prosperity. Carter investigates this focus from two perspectives: in part 1, she tackles the political economy of postwar West German consumption, and in part 2, she looks at representations of the consuming woman across a range of popular cultural forms. Since visual imagery is discussed at length, the book is lavishly illustrated with advertisements, fashion photographs, film stills, and documentary photography from the period.How German Is She? also makes a distinctive contribution to questions of national identity. While many historians agree that nationalism was a spent force after 1945, Carter argues that concepts of nationhood survived in the rhetorics of public policy and in popular culture of the period. In this context, national and efficient consumption became a housewife's duty, not just to husband and family, but to the postwar "nation." The book will be of primary interest to scholars and students in German studies, women's studies, and cultural studies.Erica Carter is Research Fellow in German Studies, University of Warwick.

How German Is She?: Postwar West German Reconstruction and the Consuming Woman (SOCIAL HISTORY, POPULAR CULTURE, AND POLITICS IN GERMANY)

History

Carter, Erica

Americas

Univ of Michigan Pr

Male Fantasies: Volume 2: Psychoanalyzing the White Terror

Politics & Social Sciences

Turner, Chris

Theweleit, Klaus

Social Sciences

Blackwell*publishers

Dietrich's Ghosts: The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film

This text looks at the star system under the Third Reich. Following the experiments of Weimar, much of cinema after 1933 became part of a wider Nazi backlash against modernism in all its forms. This study contributes to contemporary debates concerning the historical study of film spectatorship.

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

British Film Institute

This text looks at the star system under the Third Reich. Following the experiments of Weimar, much of cinema after 1933 became part of a wider Nazi backlash against modernism in all its forms. This study contributes to contemporary debates concerning the historical study of film spectatorship.

The articles in this collection were first published in the journal New Formations between 1987 and 1991. They take as their focus the notions of identity and location, belonging and displacement. During the period in which these pieces were written the presumed certainties of cultural identity, firmly located in particular places which housed stable cohesive communities of shared tradition and perspective, though never a reality for some, were increasingly disrupted and displaced for all. Places are no longer the clear supports of our identity. Themes of cultural belonging, of home and exile, are explored through the diverse prisms of colonialism, national identity and urban experiences. Space &amp; Place forms a valuable contribution to an emerging social and symbolic geography which is one of the most exciting aspects of today's cultural studies.

Space and Place: Theories of Identity and Location

DONALD, JAMES

Lawrence & Wishart Ltd

Argues that there is a pattern of anti-gay discrimination in the way the media, the law, the medical profession, and governments are handling the AIDS crisis

Taking Liberties

Serpent's Tail

Mapping the Sensible: Distribution, Inscription, Cinematic Thinking (Cinepoetics Essay, 3)

Rositzka, Eileen

Malcomess, Bettina

de Gruyter

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