A difficult marriage: gender, politics and the romance in literary accounts of German unification

这个项目的重点是性别之间的相互关系，政治和浪漫的文学帐户的德国统一。通过探讨如何政治？结婚？随着传统的性别角色在东西德国之间的差异被映射到文学婚姻中，该项目研究了统一给男人和女人带来的挑战和机遇。它将使我们深入了解统一是如何改写女性和男性的剧本，并迫使亲密关系发生转变的。其研究结果将增进对后共产主义欧洲的性别关系以及性别、民族和现代性之间关系的了解。

This project focuses on the interrelationships between gender, politics and the romance in literary accounts of German unification. Through an exploration of how the political ?marriage? between East and West Germany, with its conventionalised gender roles, is mapped onto literary marriages, the project examines the challenges and opportunities that unification has afforded men and women. It will yield insights into the ways in which unification has rewritten the scripts for femininity and masculinity and forced a transformation of intimacy. Its findings will enhance knowledge of gender relations in post-communist Europe and the relationships between gender, the nation and modernity.