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Love in the Time of Communism - Intimacy and Sexuality in the GDR (Paperback)
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Love in the Time of Communism - Intimacy and Sexuality in the GDR (Paperback)
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In the aftermath of the reunification of Germany one former
dissident recalled nostalgically that under the East German regime
'we had more sex and we had more to laugh about'. Love in the Time
of Communism is a fascinating history of the GDR's forgotten sexual
revolution and its limits. Josie McLellan shows that under
communism divorce rates soared, abortion become commonplace and the
rate of births outside marriage was amongst the highest in Europe.
Nudism went from ban to state-sponsored boom, and erotica became
common currency in both the official economy and the black market.
Public discussion of sexuality was, however, tightly controlled and
there were few opportunities to challenge traditional gender roles
or sexual norms. Josie McLellan's pioneering account questions some
of our basic assumptions about the relationship between sexuality,
politics and society and is a major contribution to our
understanding of the everyday emotional lives of postwar Europeans.
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