{"product_id":"comrades-in-arms-military-masculinities-in-east-german-culture-9781800736375","title":"Comrades in Arms: Military Masculinities in East German Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eThe East German National Peoples Army was a masculine institution that emphasized traditional ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage, but film and literature of the GDR depicted it as more nuanced and ambivalent, focusing on violence, physical vulnerability, military theatricality, and conscripts' powerful emotions and desires. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 280 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 01 December 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithout question, the East German National People’s Army was a profoundly masculine institution that emphasized traditional ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage. Nonetheless, as this innovative study demonstrates, depictions of the military in the film and literature of the GDR were far more nuanced and ambivalent. Departing from past studies that have found in such portrayals an unchanging, idealized masculinity, \u003cem\u003eComrades in Arms\u003c\/em\u003e shows how cultural works both before and after reunification place violence, physical vulnerability, and military theatricality, as well as conscripts’ powerful emotions and desires, at the center of soldiers’ lives and the military institution itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781800736375\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tom Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44094053449978,"sku":"9781800736375","price":14.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1672407442868_book.jpg?v=1672480843","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/comrades-in-arms-military-masculinities-in-east-german-culture-9781800736375","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}