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From: Carol Rowe <>
Subject: Re: [WarBrides] German War Bride Research
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 21:15:29 -0500
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How to I get to the archives for this Warbride site. I just subscribed but
would like to look at the archives for various names in my family.
Carol Rowe


On 12/29/05, Melynda Jarratt <> wrote:
>
> 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 Fräuleins': 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 women's press advocacy in late colonial India,
> 623
> Dalia Marcinkeviciene & Rima Praspaliauskiene. Prostitution in Post-war
> Lithuania, 651
> Zoë Waxman. Unheard Testimony, Untold Stories: the representation of
> women's
> 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
>
> VIEW FULL TEXT | BACK TO CONTENTS LIST
> 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 'women's 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
>
> VIEW FULL TEXT | BACK TO CONTENTS LIST
> 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
>
> VIEW FULL TEXT | BACK TO CONTENTS LIST
> 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
>
> VIEW FULL TEXT | BACK TO CONTENTS LIST
> 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 German–American
> 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 German–American 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
>
>
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Elizabeth" <>
> Reply-To:
> To:
> 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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