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Feminist Review (1990) 35, 9–23. doi:10.1057/fr.1990.25
The Mothers' Manifesto and Disputes over 'Mutterlichkeit'
Prue Chamberlayne teaches Social Policy and European Studies in the Sociology Department at the Polytechnic of East London. Her original degree was in German. She has recently done research in the GDR on neighbourhood and tenant participation and on housing co-ops, and is currently writing on various aspects of women and social policy in Western Europe.
Many thanks to Ilona Ostner for help with references, and to Erica Carter and Eva Kolinsky likewise, and for discussion and encouragement.
This article is based on a paper given at a conference at the Goethe Institute in May 1989: 'The Federal Republic - Forty Years On'. It will be published by Gower in a collection under that title edited by Eva Kolinsky.
Prue Chamberlayne
