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Moving Beyond Imaginary Walls: FIT's Handbook Women in European Theatre Today
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 January 2009
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As a materialist feminist from the former West Berlin I have always been in support of the German Democratic Republic as a system that granted womenextensive social benefits through the law. Before German reunification, rights to apprenticeship, employment, day care, and abortion were secured for East German women. Thus, in my imagination, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) occupied a space where gender and class equality were guaranteed—at least on paper.
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1. Nickel, Hildegard Maria, ‘Women in the German Democratic Republic and the New Federal States: Looking Backward and Forward (Five Theses)’, in Funk, Nanette & Mueller, Magda, eds., Gender Politics and Post-Communism: Reflections from Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (New York & London: Routledge, 1993), p. 140.Google Scholar
2. Ibid., pp. 140–1.
3. Sieg, Katrin, ‘Subjectivity and Socialism: Feminist Discourses in East Germany’, in Reinelt, Janelle, ed., Crucibles of Crisis: Performing Social Change (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996), p. 80.Google Scholar
4. For the purpose of my argument and for the sake of clarity, I am using the term ‘post-Communist’ somewhat hesitantly, to refer to the East European countries that were formerly members of the Warsaw Pact. The term serves here to make a historical distinction but is slightly inaccurate, as many East European countries, such as the GDR, operated under socialist rather than Communist systems.
5. Frauen im europäischen Theater heute (ISBN: 3–434–50450–8) can be obtained through its editor: Karin Uecker, Kraepelinstrasse 63, 80804 München, Germany (e-mail: karin.uecker@bss.de);or directly from the publisher: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Parkallee 2, D-20144 Hamburg, Germany.
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