Revenge of the domestic: women, the family, and communism in the German Democratic Republic

List of Illustrations ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xv INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER ONE: The Trying Time: Survival Crises and Political Dilemmas under Soviet Occupation 19 CHAPTER TWO: Constructing Power: Women and the Political Program of the Socialist Unity Party 61 CHAPTER THREE: Forging the Female Proletarian: Women Workers, Production, and the Culture of the Shop Floor 87 CHAPTER FOUR: Restoring Fertility: Reproduction under the Wings of Mother State 133 CHAPTER FIVE: Reforming Taste: Public Services, Private Desires, and Domestic Labor 165 CHAPTER SIX: Reconstituting the Family: Domestic Relations between Tradition and Change 198 CHAPTER SEVEN: Modernization and Its Discontents: State, Society, and Gender in the 1960s 236 SLOUCHING TOWARD BETHLEHEM 304 Bibliography 321 Index 343