Journal article

Publication year: 1999

Pages: 1-22

Journal: Social Politics

Volume number: 6

Issue number: 1

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/6.1.1

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Abstract: 

Through the example of women in the East German civil rights movements
of the autumn of 1989, this study addresses questions of why women who
played a central role in these social movements increasingly withdrew
from institutionalized politics after the end of the revolutionary
upheaval. The investigation is based on a content analysis of fifteen
life-history narratives of women active in civil rights movements in the
German Democratic Republic. The central result is that the causes for
this development are rooted in the women's special conception of
politics, which necessarily collides with the demands of
institutionalized political activity and questions such
institutionalized politics.

Harvard Citation style: Miethe, I. (1999) From “Mother of the Revolution” to “Fathers of Unification” : Concepts of Politics among Women Activists Following German Unification, Social Politics, 6(1), pp. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/6.1.1

APA Citation style: Miethe, I. (1999). From “Mother of the Revolution” to “Fathers of Unification” : Concepts of Politics among Women Activists Following German Unification. Social Politics. 6(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/6.1.1