Whining and Winning
Male Narratives of Love, Marriage, and Divorce in the Shadow of the Third Reich
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9644685 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elissa Mailänder (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 488-512 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Central European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-9389 • E-ISSN: 1569-1616 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008938918000687 |
| OpenAlex | W2890420810 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
This article analyzes the social realities that Austrian and German heterosexual men, all in their reproductive age, confronted in the aftermath of World War II; the kind of sexual and gendered configurations produced under Nazism and during the postwar period; and the ways in which these social and emotional realities were publically and privately dealt with after the war. It draws on reports in, and letters-to-the-editor of, the journal Liebe und Ehe from 1949 to 1951, as well as on a sample of fourteen private letters written by an Austrian policeman in 1951 about his love relationship with a nurse. Such early postwar narratives not only point at issues and conflicts between the sexes, but also suggest the rehabilitation of traditional gender roles in West Germany and Austria. Men struggled to conform to new guidelines of heterosexual domesticity, a development that hints not only at traumatic war experiences, but also at the ideological residuals of Nazism
Aesthetics · Art · Criminology · German · Ideology · Literature · Narrative · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Shadow (psychology · Sociology · World War II · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law · Psychology
War Stories
Protecting motherhood
Le pacte autobiographique
Between ‘Racial Awareness’ and Fantasies of Potency
The Rise and Fall of Comradeship
Homecomings
Sexuality in Europe
What Difference Does a Husband Make?
From Nurturing the Nation to Purifying the Volk
Jews, Germans, and Allies
The Hour of the Woman
Visions of Community in Nazi Germany
Nazism as Fascism
Sex after Fascism
Cool Guys, Swots and Wimps
Gender Trouble
The Most Secret Quintessence of Life
Reframing Sexual Violence as a Weapon and Strategy of War
Sexual Morality in 1960s West Germany
The Politics of Fertility in Twentieth-Century Berlin
Reconstructing the Family in Reconstruction Germany
Along the Archival Grain
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution
Hegemonic Masculinity
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |