Archiv für Juli 2015

ABSTRACTS

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12123

‘Skills Proper to their Sex’: Cecilia Morillas and a New Domestic Education in Early Modern Spain

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12126

Working the Passage: East German Border Checkpoints, 1961-90. The Case of GUSt Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse, Berlin

In East Germany (GDR) the aim of total control of society occupied both: those on the ‘heights of command’ and the various ‘organs’ of the ruling party (SED) and state. In this pursuit efforts to strictly regulate any passage o…

Attraction and Aversion in Germany’s ‚1968‘: Encountering the Western Revolt in East Berlin

This article uses oral history interviews and archival sources to investigate the entanglements between East and West German activists of 1968. Cold War Berlin remained an important zone of exchange between East and West after the border closure of 19…

Border Visions and Border Regimes in Cold War Eastern Europe

Quelle: http://jch.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/50/3/656?rss=1

‚Do What the Afro-Americans Are Doing‘: Black Power and the Start of the Northern Ireland Troubles

This article challenges the local focus of much of the work on the Northern Ireland Troubles, by examining the importance of the impact that Black Power movements had on activists in the 1960s and 1970s. It is not, however, the story of the transnatio…

French and British Anti-Racists Since the 1960s: A rendez-vous manque?

While immigration situations in France and Britain are often contrasted to each other, they are not mutually closed systems. This article asks to what extent anti-racist movements in the two countries interacted with each other between the 1960s and 1…

‚Cuban Europe‘? Greek and Iberian tiersmondisme in the ‚Long 1960s‘

This article addresses the ways in which the Third World emerged as a new referent in Greece and Spain in the ‘long 1960s‘. It shows how ‘Thirdworldism’ emerged out of growing dissatisfaction with the Old Left’s defeatism and t…

Our Bodies, Ourselves: The Transnational Connections of 1970s Italian and Roman Feminism

This article presents an approach to studying processes of transnational exchange and reception between social movements. It does so by focusing on a locally situated case study: the movement for women’s reproductive and sexual health and rights…

Progressive Participation and Transnational Activism in the Catholic Church after Vatican II: The Dutch and West German Examples

This article examines transnational connections, perceptions and imaginations of bottom-up contention in the Dutch and West German Catholic Church. It not only analyses how the Second Vatican Council fuelled participatory practises launched by the bis…