Masculinity and socialist modernity in East German cultural diplomacy after 1972

这项工作将探讨德意志民主共和国如何通过为外国消费而设计的刊物（如《德意志民主共和国评论》杂志），推动外国对社会主义男子气概优越性的认识，并考虑关于男子气概的论述和支撑这些论述的意识形态如何影响文化外交的实际表达。我将纠正一种倾向，即通过分析男性气质如何被用来证明东德的现代性，以及这些话语和权力动态如何影响东德与外国游客和工人（包括工会代表团）之间的接触，来关注民主德国文化外交中女性解放的修辞力量。在考虑东德男子气概优越的话语及其内在的权力动力如何影响与外国工会代表团和工人的现实世界互动时，我将考虑与国际团结表达（特别是对驻扎在民主德国的全球南方工人）共存的治疗师刻板印象在多大程度上与外国人在性别方面落后的看法相交叉。此外，在考虑东德男子气概及其作为国际主义修辞工具的部署的手段时，我将阐明当代极右翼自己构建替代男子气概的一个意想不到的来源。

This work will explore how the GDR sought to advance foreign knowledge of the superiority of socialist masculinity inworks designed for foreign consumption, such as the magazine DDR-Revue, considering how discourses on masculinityand the ideologies underpinning them impacted practical expressions of cultural diplomacy. I will rectify a tendency tofocus on the rhetorical power of female emancipation in the GDR's cultural diplomacy by offering an analysis of howmasculinity was deployed to evidence East German modernity, and how these discourses and the power dynamicstherein impacted encounters between East Germans and foreign visitors and workers, including trade union delegations.In considering how discourses of the superiority of East German masculinity and the power dynamics inherent thereinimpacted real-world interactions with foreign trade union delegations and workers, I will consider the extent to which theracist stereotypes that existed alongside expressions of international solidarity (particularly towards workers from theGlobal South stationed in the GDR) intersected with perceptions of foreigners as backwards in gendered terms.Furthermore, in considering the means by which East German masculinity and its deployment as a tool of internationalistrhetoric fostered a self-perception of superiority in juxtaposition to foreign backwardness, I will illuminate one unexpectedsource of the contemporary far-right's own construction of an alternative masculinity.