Abstract

Feminist domestic violence activists in 1970s West Berlin sought to create a community of women helping women. This was key to feminist work in challenging patriarchal citizenship norms and male violence against women. Tracing the evolution of feminist domestic violence activism in West Berlin, this article argues that feminist ideals and critiques were deradicalized as they were taken up in political and public discourse. Rather than being a political project of creating feminist community or challenging gendered concepts of citizenship, domestic violence activism was entrenched as a women’s issue that women were responsible for addressing. Indeed, examining official public and media support for domestic violence projects exposes how the state leant on women as the drivers of gender equality, in ways that were often unpaid and unacknowledged. Far from contesting patriarchy, popular support for domestic violence initiatives went hand-in-hand with a reinscription of a deeply rooted sexual-moral order that entwined liberal development in Germany with paternal and patriarchal authority since the nineteenth century. In making this argument, this article demonstrates that value change was both limited and functioned within normative boundaries. What change did occur was contingent on the labour of women and feminists, whose activism challenged the power structures and norms that left women vulnerable to abuse. Moreover, in the context of the global economic downturn of the 1970s, grassroots feminist activism held even more importance as it offered West Germany a cheap solution to a systemic issue that could no longer be ignored.

中文翻译：

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性别价值观的变化：1970年代西柏林的家庭暴力和女性主义*

摘要

女权主义家庭暴力活动家在1970年代西柏林寻求建立一个妇女帮助妇女的社区。这是女权主义挑战父权制公民规范和针对妇女的男性暴力行为的关键。追溯西柏林女权主义家庭暴力行动主义的演变，这篇文章认为，女权主义的理想和批评在政治和公共话语中被消灭了。家庭暴力行动主义既不是建立女性主义社区的政治项目，也不是挑战性别观念的公民身份，而是根深蒂固地作为妇女负责解决的妇女问题。的确，检查官方公众和媒体对家庭暴力项目的支持揭示了国家如何依靠妇女作为性别平等的推动者，而这种方式通常是无偿且未被承认的。自19世纪以来，对家庭暴力倡议的广泛支持与对根深蒂固的性道德秩序的重新定位并存，这与在父权制中相互抗衡相提并论。该性道德秩序在德国以父权制和父权制统治了自由发展。在提出这一论点时，本文证明了价值变化既受限制且在规范范围内起作用。发生的变化取决于妇女和女权主义者的劳动，她们的激进主义挑战了使妇女容易遭受虐待的权力结构和规范。此外，在1970年代全球经济不景气的背景下，基层的女权主义行动更加重要，因为它为西德提供了解决系统问题的廉价解决方案，而这一问题已不容忽视。自19世纪以来，对于根深蒂固的性道德秩序的重新铭记，对家庭暴力倡议的广泛支持与之并驾齐驱，该秩序使德国的自由发展得到了父权制和父权制的统治。在提出这一论点时，本文证明了价值变化既受限制且在规范范围内起作用。发生的变化取决于妇女和女权主义者的劳动，她们的激进主义挑战了使妇女容易遭受虐待的权力结构和规范。此外，在1970年代全球经济不景气的背景下，基层的女权主义行动更加重要，因为它为西德提供了解决系统问题的廉价解决方案，而这一问题已不容忽视。自19世纪以来，对于根深蒂固的性道德秩序的重新铭记，对家庭暴力倡议的广泛支持与之并驾齐驱，该秩序使德国的自由发展得到了父权制和父权制的统治。在提出这一论点时，本文证明了价值变化既受限制且在规范范围内起作用。发生的变化取决于妇女和女权主义者的劳动，她们的激进主义挑战了使妇女容易遭受虐待的权力结构和规范。此外，在1970年代全球经济不景气的背景下，基层的女权主义行动更加重要，因为它为西德提供了解决系统问题的廉价解决方案，而这一问题已不容忽视。