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100	1	0	_aChristian, Michel _eauthor
245	0	0	_aWomen and Men in Eastern Bloc Communist Parties
260			_c2015.
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520			_aThis article deals with the role of women and men in ruling Communist Parties, focusing on the case of East Germany’s Social Unity Party (SED). Although women were consistently under-represented in the Party, female recruitment improved starting in the 1960s and ultimately became more energetic than male recruitment. Nevertheless, the recruitment of women reflected, and sometimes emphasised, the gendered characteristics of the various occupational sectors in which the Party was established, a phenomenon which could also be observed in the Communist Parties of Western Europe. Moreover, women were not comrades like any other. Either their specificity as women was denied in the name of a neutral model of militancy, which was in reality based on a male template, or, on the contrary, their specificity was highlighted, but ultimately used to limit their action to specialised spheres of activity seen as inherently feminine.
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690			_aEastern bloc
690			_apolitics
690			_acareers
690			_aCommunist Party
786	0		_nVingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire | o 126 | 2 | 2015-04-10 | p. 87-104 | 0294-1759
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-vingtieme-siecle-revue-d-histoire-2015-2-page-87?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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