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Subject: happy newyear
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:14:34 -0500
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too all war brides happy new year. and the best in 2006..Diane
Cobon..daughter of war bride Mrs Jean Tyson,(ne Barnet)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Rowe" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: [WarBrides] German War Bride Research


> 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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