... took on renewed importance after reunification. At that time, the delegitimization of socialism and the integration of the German Democratic Republic into the Federal Republic paved new avenues for activists tackling violence against women. Indeed, domestic violence projects in the former East Germany...

... This chapter examines feminist activism across Berlin from 1989 to 2002. It specifically compares the experiences of abortion rights activists with those working to address domestic violence. Abortion was an important flashpoint for women's rights during reunification as East German women fought...

... and reunification and from grassroots campaign to established, professionalized social service. In doing so, it brings the histories of feminism in East and West Berlin together for the first time and explores how feminism successfully changed women's rights in Germany. But it also asks what popular and political...