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From: "Melynda Jarratt" <>
Subject: RE: [WarBrides] German War Bride Research
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:21:02 -0400
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Hi, I did another search for Astrid Hastak (without quotations) and found
some more information.
From the American Historical Association website:
http://www.historians.org/projects/cge/PhD/schools/PhDsAwarded.cfm?Dir_Abbrev=Purdue
In 2005 Hastak Astrid was awarded her PHd from Purdue University for her
dissertation 'I was never one of those Fruleins': The Impact of Cultural
Image on German War Brides in America"
She also did a review of 'Goodbye, Piccadilly: British War Brides in
America,' by Jenel Virden for the American Journal of Ethnic History
http://iibp.chadwyck.com/toc/JournalofAmericanEthnicHistory/181Fall1998.htm
I also found some interesting research about German War Brides by doing a
search for "German War Brides" (quotations)
Women's History Review
ISSN 0961-2025
Volume 12 Number 4 2003
Other issues available | Journal home page | Publisher home page
CONTENTS
[click on author's name for abstract and full text]
Ellen Warne, Shurlee Swain, Patricia Grimshaw & John Lack. Women in
Conversation: a wartime social survey in Melbourne, Australia,
1941‑43, 527
Linda Bryder. Two Models of Infant Welfare in the First Half of the
Twentieth Century: New Zealand and the USA, 547
Rima D. Apple. Educating Mothers: the Wisconsin Bureau of Maternal and Child
Health, 559
Raingard Esser. Language No Obstacle: war brides in the German press,
1945‑49, 577
Martine Faraut. Women Resisting the Vote: a case of anti-femininism?, 605
Michelle Elizabeth Tusan. Writing Stri Dharma: international feminism,
nationalist politics, and womens press advocacy in late colonial India, 623
Dalia Marcinkeviciene & Rima Praspaliauskiene. Prostitution in Post-war
Lithuania, 651
Zo Waxman. Unheard Testimony, Untold Stories: the representation of womens
Holocaust experiences (Clare Evans Memorial Fund Prize Essay, 2001), 661
Book Reviews, 679 VIEW FULL TEXT
Women in Conversation: a wartime social survey in Melbourne, Australia
1941‑43
ELLEN WARNE, SHURLEE SWAIN, PATRICIA GRIMSHAW & JOHN LACK University of
Melbourne, Australia
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This article examines the gendered dimensions of relationships in the
conduct of a major academic Australian social survey in Melbourne in the
early years of the Second World War. Despite its grounding in methodology
current in Britain at the time, its execution and outcomes mirrored the
gendered and classed nature of the survey, with its male direction,
middle-class female interviewers, and largely working-class respondents. The
value of womens conversations was reflected in the fullness of the
findings that were made publicly available in subsequent years.
Two Models of Infant Welfare in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: New
Zealand and the USA
LINDA BRYDER University of Auckland, New Zealand
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In New Zealand, as elsewhere in the Western world in the early twentieth
century, maternal and infant health became a national concern and the task
of organising health services was taken up by women in a voluntary capacity.
In the USA this culminated in the Sheppard-Towner (Maternity and Infancy)
Act of 1921. However, within a decade American paediatricians had assumed
control of the services. By contrast, the services in New Zealand remained
in the hands of a female-run voluntary organisation, the Plunket Society.
From the foundation of the Society in 1907, health services for mothers and
their infants became the site of territorial disputes between various health
providers the Health Department, the Plunket Society and paediatricians.
This article explores why and how the Plunket Society managed to retain
control of this important area of public health in the face of challenges by
these other health providers. It will be argued that the reasons relate to
the tenacity with which the maternalists claimed the territory as their
own, their informal access to channels of power, their public support, and
their success in maintaining medical respectability through their own
honorary and paid professional staff.
Educating Mothers: the Wisconsin Bureau of Maternal and Child Health
RIMA D. APPLE University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
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Health-care providers, social reformers, educators, and politicians were
joined in a concerted effort to improve maternal and child health in the USA
in the inter-war period. Identifying the critical role of mothers in this
endeavor, their campaigns were designed to educate women in modern,
appropriate childcare practices predicated on middle-class standards for
urban families with the financial and medical resources to carry out such
health-care prescriptions. Mothers who could not afford a private physician
were urged to visit clinics emerging in American cities. Few historians have
examined in any great depth the day-to-day issues faced by mothers or the
role of public health nurses in these extensive campaigns. Most
particularly, the experiences of rural mothers are only now receiving much
attention. This article analyzes the work of public health nurses employed
by the Department of Maternal and Child Health in the state of Wisconsin,
who endeavored to bring modern science and medicine to mothers. Yet, at the
same time they were forced to cope with local and national politics and with
the strictures of the US medical system, namely, the separation of public
health and private medicine in which medical treatment remained in the
hands of private physicians and the activities of public health nurses were
limited to health education. Their writings show nurses struggling both with
the problems of rural poverty and with the constraints of public health
within contemporary gender relations.
http://www.triangle.co.uk/whr/content/pdfs/12/issue12_4.asp#4
Language No Obstacle: war brides in the German press, 1945‑49
RAINGARD ESSER University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom
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German war brides are an essential part in the cultural memory of post-war
West Germany. This study sheds some light on the representation of war
brides in German newspapers and magazines published in the American and
British zones between 1945/46 and 1949. It argues that GermanAmerican
marriages were utilised to demonstrate and to enhance the good relations
between the former enemies and contributed to the popularisation of the
American Dream. The war bride theme also promoted the image of the new
German woman: She was stylish, modern and devoted to her husband. The
presentation of GermanAmerican couples ignored issues such as race,
prostitution, or divorce, but painted a romantic picture of married life in
the Land of the Free.
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=80&story_id=24941&name=Trans-Atlantic+love%3A+the+war+brides'+story
Trans-Atlantic love: the war brides' story
A new exhibition in Berlin tells the story of the German women and American
soldiers who overcame the 'no fraternization' rule in the bleak post-war
years. Clive Freeman talks to some of the couples, six decades on.
Melynda Jarratt, BA, MA (History)
Diploma in Digital Media and Design
Webmaster: http://www.canadianwarbrides.com and http://www.project-roots.com
Voices of the Left Behind: Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of
World War Two is available in English at
http://www.project-roots.com/books.html and in Dutch at
http://www.uitgeverijpica.nl/index.html?page=achterbleven
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Subject: [WarBrides] German War Bride Research
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:20:55 -0500
Hello, my name is Elizabeth Robinson and I just found and subscribed to this
mail list. My mother-in-law, Suzanne Schuster Robinson Tripp, is a German
war-bride. She met and married Harold Robinson of southern Ohio in Nurnberg
where she was born and raised. [Her oldest son, born in Germany calls it
the 'Hitler Dating Service'.] After my husband was born here in the states,
they divorced and Susi later married Leonard Tripp. Almost a year and a
half ago, Susi came to live with us in upstate New York because her overall
health has deteriated such plus she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Reason for this email is that in going through her papers, I found
correspondence dated 1997 regarding PhD research on American WWII German war
brides. The letters are written in German from an Astrid Hastak of
Brooklyn, New York., With my very rusty German, I am unable to find any
reference from which school this research is being done. Apparently, there
was a questionaire to fill out, which she did do.
Am wondering is anyone has any further information about the current status
of this research. I have done a search on the internet, and have found
only Canadian and English websites regarding their war brides. That is how
I found this forum. Any help, suggestions etc. would be greatly
appreciated. Would like to know what was done with the research before all
of Susi's memories are lost.
Thank you
Elizabeth
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