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Article: The Promised Land? Feminist Writing in the German Democratic Republic.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2003
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The Promised Land? Feminist Writing in the German Democratic Republic. By LORNA MARTENS. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 2001. x+273 pp. 13.95 [pounds sterling]; $19.95 (pbk). ISBN 0-7914-4860-6 (pbk).
Literature's function as Ersatzoffentlichkeit in the GDR is well known; in this work, Lorna Martens considers literature as the 'principal site' (p. 3) of feminism in that state. In the first three chapters, she sets GDR feminism in its social and ideological context, and elaborates how feminist theories and demands in the GDR differed from those in the West as a result of the official view that Socialism had solved the 'woman question'. Martens ...