The East German Man: “Brown Perpetrator of Violence,” “Sensitive Father”? An Exploration of Media Discourses and Scholarly Studies

Sylka Scholz ()
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Sylka Scholz: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

A chapter in Gender and Power in Eastern Europe, 2021, pp 227-245 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The debate concerning the transformation of fatherhood and the discussion of the “new fathers” is in Germany an implicitly West German discourse. East German fathers are hardly present in the media, they have no voice in the discourse. Instead, there is a preference for depicting East German men as “Brown (as in fascist) perpetrators of violence”, embedded in the discursive context of the “Brown East”. The present work calls into question this ascription of the progressive, modern West German man and the traditionalist, right-wing extremist East German man. It analyzes the institutional framework conditions that have led to the formation of a West German discursive hegemony.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-53130-0_15

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