Machine generated contents note: 1. Village on the Border -- 2. Publicity, Secrecy, and the Politics of Everyday Life -- 3. Seventh Station -- 4. Consuming Differences -- 5. Borderlands -- 6. Designing Women -- 7. Dis-membered Border -- Epilogue: The Tree of Unity
Summary
Focusing on the re-unification of Germany, this text asks what happens when a political and economic system collapses overnight. It concentrates especially on how these changes have affected certain "border zones" of daily life - including social organization, gender and religion
Notes
"An earlier version of chapter 7 appeared in A user's guide to German cultural studies ... Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997"--Title page verso
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and index