Entangled Emancipation

Women's Rights in Cold War Germany

Alexandria Ruble

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University of Toronto Press
15 December 2023

Gender studies: women; Legal history; Human rights & civil liberties law

Series: German and European Studies

Entangled Emancipation examines the struggle to redefine the gender order and women's rights in East and West Germany after the Second World War.

In 1900, German legislators passed the Civil Code, a controversial law that designated women as second-class citizens in marriage, parental rights, and marital property. Despite the upheavals in early twentieth-century Germany

the fall of the German Empire after the First World War, the tumultuous Weimar Republic, and the destructive Third Reich

the Civil Code remained the law of the land. After Nazi Germany's defeat in 1945 and the founding of East and West Germany, legislators in both states finally replaced the old law with new versions that expanded women's rights in marriage and the family.

Entangled Emancipation reveals how the complex relationship between the divided Germanys in the early Cold War catalysed but sometimes blocked efforts to reshape legal understandings of gender and the family after decades of inequality. Using methods drawn from gender history and discourse analysis, the book restores the history of the women's movements in East and West Germany. Entangled Emancipation ultimately explores the parallel processes through which East and West Germany reimagined, negotiated, and created new civil laws governing women's rights after the Second World War.

By: Alexandria Ruble
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Volume: 52
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9781487550271
ISBN 10: 1487550278
Series: German and European Studies
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 15 December 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alexandria N. Ruble is an assistant professor of history at the University of Idaho.

Reviews for Entangled Emancipation: Women's Rights in Cold War Germany

"""Alexandria N. Ruble has written an essential history of women's rights and the family in Cold War Germany. Although debates on gender equality and revisions of family law in the two Germanys were shaped by different ideological agendas and did not develop at the same pace, Ruble delivers a nuanced analysis of how they nonetheless moved in tandem. The book is a model of how to consider both German states in one frame.""--Astrid M. Eckert, Professor of History, Emory University ""In this compact study, Ruble unearths the remarkable 'entangled' history of women's rights, activism, and everyday life at the heart of the competition between East and West Germany. Important reading for students of Germany, the Cold War, family, women, and gender.""--Belinda Davis, Professor of History, Rutgers University"