Staging emancipation and its limits: East German cultural diplomacy, the German Democratic Women's League, and the 1975 World Congress of Women in East Berlin.
This article explores the cultural diplomacy of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) at the World Congress of Women in October 1975 in East Berlin. Organized by the Women's International Democratic Federation to celebrate the UN International Women's Year, the congress provided a space for communist...
| Publicado en: | Women's History Review Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 8 - 27 |
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