"Disabled" families? The distribution of tasks and roles in the everdaylife of families with disabled members in West Germany from 1945 tothe 1980s

西德残障家庭的近期历史尚未得到分析。为了填补这一研究空白，并确定受残疾影响的家庭星座的具体情况，将启发式地使用三个历史子学科的研究结果：残疾史、家族史和护理史。该项目通过分析每个家庭成员在护理和家庭日常生活中必须完成的角色和任务，专注于“残疾”家庭的日常生活。将特别注意残疾人与有能力的家庭成员之间讨价还价的有关过程。该项目认为，受影响的家庭面临特定的任务，成员必须履行特定的角色，因为他们必须应对因其一名亲属的残疾而产生的障碍和社会歧视。在这种情况下，家庭成员之间的权力等级冲突和身份的构建具有特别重要的意义。同时，将通过确定影响“残疾”家庭日常生活的社会发展来分析随时间发生的变化：该项目询问，家庭观念和结构是否发生变化，性别角色是否发生变化，社会、家庭和康复政策等政策领域的创新，以及关于残疾人的陈规定型观念的变化，受影响的有残疾人的家庭是否导致每个人都必须履行的角色和任务的重新安排。因此，残疾历史学家的主要假设之一将得到满足，即认为残疾人及其亲属不是他们自己历史的客体，而是他们自己历史的主题。

The recent history of families with members with disabilities in West Germany has not been yet analyzed. To fill this gap of research and to determine the specifics of family constellations affected by disability, findings of three historical subdisciplines will be heuristically used: disability history, family history, and care history. The project focusses on the everyday life of 'disabled' families by analyzing which roles and tasks in the fields of care and household routines each family member had to fulfill. Special attention will be given to the concerning processes of bargaining between the disabled and abled family members. The project argues on the assumption that the affected families were confronted with specific tasks and that the members had to fulfill specific roles because they had to cope with obstacles and social discrimination generated by the disability of one of their relatives. In this context conflicts, hierarchies of power between family members, and the construction of identities are of special importance. At the same time, changes over time will be analyzed by identifying social developments that influenced the everyday life of ‘disabled’ families: The project asks, whether occurring changes of conceptions and structures of families, the change of gender roles, innovations in policy areas like social, family and rehabilitation policies as well as changes concerning stereotypes about disabled persons affected families with disabled members and led to rearrangements concerning the roles and tasks everyone had to fulfill. Thus, one of the main postulations of disability historians, namely to conceive disabled persons and their relatives not as objects but subjects of their own history, will be met.