{"title":"Socialist emancipation: The women's movement in the German Democratic Republic","authors":"Barbara Einhorn","doi":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)95984-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)95984-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The paper attempts to evaluate the role of the DFD (Women's Democratic League of Germany-the official and only women's organization in the G.D.R.) within the general context of the situation of women in the G.D.R.</p><p>It therefore discusses the DFD's historical contribution to legislation and social measures in favour of women, the theoretical framework in which this occurred, and the somewhat paradoxical nature of the DFD's current role.</p><p>Expanding these issues, the paper deals with the historical legacy of Marxist theory on the emancipation of women, and the isolation from Western feminist theory in which the G.D.R. in general, and the DFD in particular operate.</p><p>Contradictions in the present situation of women in the G.D.R. are discussed as well as the tremendous gains in status and consciousness already made by women on the basis of the economic, social and legal provisions in their favour.</p><p>Some causes for these contradictions are postulated. Examples of their expression through the media and in recent literature are given to exemplify both the extent of and the limits to the current discussion of feminist issues in the G.D.R.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85875,"journal":{"name":"Women's studies international quarterly","volume":"4 4","pages":"Pages 435-452"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)95984-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138270086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The women's liberation movement in Finland","authors":"Elina Juusola-Halonen","doi":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)95996-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)95996-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Women's Liberation Movement in Finland is still very young. We did have, however, a strong suffragette movement between 1880 and 1910 but it faded out for all practical purposes after the granting of the vote in 1906.</p><p>The new wave of the women's movement reached us only sporadically during the 1960s. At the beginning of the 1970s new women's groups started as an extension of the left and anti-authoritarian movements although right from the beginning many women with no particular political backgrounds formed groups. These two different aspects gave rise to much discussion. Feminists were at first mainly Swedish-speaking but now Finnish-speaking women have embraced the cause and in fact form the majority. The feminists consist of free groups of women and the Union of the Women's Societies is a registered organization with sufficient status to allow it to make general statements on behalf of all women. During the last few years the perspective has changed from that of alleviating misery to that of ensuring dignity and attitudes towards feminists are slowly changing. The establishment of departments of women's studies must play its part in this rethinking, and research done in this field must be extended. There still remains a lot of work before the female view is a recognized and effective element in the process of decision making but there is room for optimism.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85875,"journal":{"name":"Women's studies international quarterly","volume":"4 4","pages":"Pages 453-460"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)95996-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73761223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perspectives of women researchers on disarmament, national security, and world order","authors":"Elise Boulding","doi":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96328-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96328-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Forty women scholars professionally active in the fields of disarmament, national security and world order from 17 countries responded to questions regarding their own current and planned research, their evaluation of existing work in these fields, their estimates of the possible major steps toward disarmament, and their views on whether women researchers approach disarmament questions differently than men. The respondents divided into (1) those seeking new conceptual frameworks in order to remedy security problems in the existing social order and (2) those searching for new social structure, seeing the existing order as itself an obstacle to peace. Both groups rejected current research as lacking significant concepts, bogged down in meaningless detail, too parochial, with too little attention to process and conflict-management skills. The New Frameworks scholars focus on better process models for describing international interaction. The New Order scholars focus on alternative, more localist models of the international order. Both groups show skill in relating macrolevel data to the human experience of conflict. Most preferred to be recognized as scholars as <em>per se</em>, not as women scholars, but many felt that their marginal status in a predominately male research field made them more objective, gave them a more wholistic view of the problems of war and peace, than their male colleagues. It is recommended that women be given more support as researchers in this field, and that their perspectives be taken account of.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85875,"journal":{"name":"Women's studies international quarterly","volume":"4 1","pages":"Pages 27-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96328-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73856780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A five-dimensional model for change: contradictions and feminist consciousness","authors":"Berit rAs","doi":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96433-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96433-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This five-dimensional model for change is based on the assumption that an integrated international economy draws its profit from increasing non-paid and low-paid work everywhere. This means the increased exploitation of women and worsening conditions for the majority in almost all countries. As the idea of equality between nations, classes, races and sexes is accepted and the women's liberation movement develops, the gap between expectations and reality grows. The article describes five dialectic dimensions. Each includes a growing conflict between deteriorating conditions and expectations, reality and promises, despair and anger. Contradictions demand resolution. The author argues that this is why a world-wide uprising of women cannot be stopped.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85875,"journal":{"name":"Women's studies international quarterly","volume":"4 1","pages":"Pages 101-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)96433-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76122059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feminists in science speak up: Alice through the microscopeThe latest in a series of books on women and science","authors":"Renate Duelli-Klein, Shelley Minden","doi":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)93512-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)93512-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85875,"journal":{"name":"Women's studies international quarterly","volume":"4 2","pages":"Pages 241-252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)93512-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86247120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Mary Ann Elston","doi":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)93944-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0148-0685(81)93944-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85875,"journal":{"name":"Women's studies international quarterly","volume":"4 2","pages":"Pages 256-257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0148-0685(81)93944-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"102950103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}