HIEU 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Herstory, Berlin Wall, Economic Restructuring
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Hieu 140 lecture 18 different narratives in late 20th century europe: immigration, Race and ethnicity: 19th century mostly focused on divisions in class, mass immigration of non-europeans into europe, so changes sense of different groups. Culture and religion: 19th century divide between protestants and catholics, big divide due to immigration of islamic populations to europe. Political systems: western, southern, eastern europe: western democratic europe, eastern communist europe, women have different experiences until 1989, notion in west that after berlin wall fell they would assimilate, but differences exist to this day. Southern europe 1970s authoritarian regimes in portugal, spain, greece gave different set of political constraints/experiences that divided experience of women. Less able to talk about single herstory now than in 19th century: no simple/single story of change vs. continuity, or progress, difficulty of figuring out common ground for future feminist movement. Gender and immigration in western europe: most immigration within european countries after wwii, mostly from south to the north.
