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- Coming of Age in Post-War Berlin: Young Women’s Search for New Emotional Subjectivities, 1946-1950
A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2022-01-15) Sahrakorpi, Tiia; Watton, CherishDuring the Allied occupation of Germany, educators asked students to write about their feelings and experiences of youth before and after the Second World War. This article uses Abitur and Reifeprüfung examination essays written by young German women, between the ages of fourteen and twenty-three, to explore how they performed and represented their emotional subjectivities in early postwar Berlin. First, it examines how young women used selective strategies of forgetting and remembering to repress their troubling emotional memories of the regime. Second it explores how women achieved some level of psychic comfort, through a selective remembering of their home lives and Bund Deutsche Mädel experiences by developing different emotional coping mechanisms. The article argues that young women’s emotional renegotiation was not a passive process as previously thought, but rather based on young women’s active and astute reading of the postwar emotional climate. Subjecting these emotional subjectivities to greater attention elucidates a key, but hitherto underexplored, stage in these young people’s lives. - Scrapbooks as Sites of Technology: The Women’s Institute and the Material Culture of 1960s Rural England
A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä(2024-07-19) Watton, Cherish; Sahrakorpi, TiiaUsing scrapbooks created by members of the Women’s Institute in England in 1965, this article offers a rare insight into women’s lived experience and interaction with new technologies and services, in domestic and communal spaces, which show how rural women diligently recorded the new behaviors, emotions, and challenges surrounding rural life. Scrapbookers show multiple and sometimes contradictory attitudes, representing themselves as modern housewives proficient with new consumer durables, while also critiquing the inequalities heralded by new goods and services. Rural women were not simply bystanders to technological change but represented themselves as both consumers and producers of new forms of knowledge, through their use of material culture. Scrapbookers used their creations to archive the emotional labor they performed in their homes and communities, illuminating an important but often overlooked component of consumption.