Männlichkeit zwischen Gefühl und Revolution

How are politics, emotions and gender interwoven? Stefanie Pilzweger tells the story of the West-German generation of '68 as a »history of feelings,« showing that emotions motivated the actions of the political activists and significantly shaped the historical progression of the social movement. She analyzes the student movement as a male-coded culture of protest and feeling: since male protagonists dominated the protest milieu of the time in terms of numbers and utterances, »masculine« emotional rules were also able to establish themselves as constitutive for the collective emotional balance.

Stefanie Pilzweger (Dr. phil.), geb. 1985, ist in der wissenschaftlichen Abteilung der KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau tätig. Ihr Forschungsschwerpunkt liegt in der Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus und der bundesdeutschen Nachkriegsjahrzehnte aus geschlechter-, emotions- und erinnerungshistorischer Perspektive.