Abstract
This article examines the varied responses to domestic violence across East andWest Germany in the final two decades of German division. Specifically, it explores two case studies that were central to addressing violence against women in the home: divorce cases and women’s shelters. Divorce hearings and women’s shelters were both hubs for the discussion of domestic abuse in the two Germanies and provide a glimpse not only into the lives of women experiencing violence, but also into the various stakeholders involved in addressing it. In doing so, it shows how in East andWest Germany, the idealization of marriage was pressed into the service of maintaining families in ways that limited the protection for women experiencing familial violence.
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