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

In: Gender and Power in Eastern Europe

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  • Sylka Scholz

    (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

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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.

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  • Sylka Scholz, 2021. "The East German Man: “Brown Perpetrator of Violence,” “Sensitive Father”? An Exploration of Media Discourses and Scholarly Studies," Societies and Political Orders in Transition, in: Katharina Bluhm & Gertrud Pickhan & Justyna Stypińska & Agnieszka Wierzcholska (ed.), Gender and Power in Eastern Europe, edition 1, pages 227-245, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:socchp:978-3-030-53130-0_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-53130-0_15
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