TY  - JOUR
A1  - Geppert, Dominik Nicolas
T1  - Emotions and gender in Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl’s Cold War
T2  - Diplomacy and statecraft
N2  - Although German Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher were on the same side in the Cold War, as well as in the same family of moderate centre-right parties, despite being roughly the same age and sharing a fundamental market-economic and Atlanticist orientation, they were not in harmony emotionally. This analysis demonstrates how different genders, incompatible conceptions of nation, history, and regional origins, as well as experiences of mutual frustration eclipsed their ideological commonalities and counteracted against the 'emotional regimes' of 'the West' in the Cold War. It breaks new ground in several respects. First, it does not examine strong feelings that blotted out all others but rather a range of more ambivalent and nuanced emotions. Second, it links the themes of gender and feeling by enquiring about the male or female manifestations and attributions of certain emotions. Third, it focuses on not only men and women at the top but considers their entourages as either amplifiers or 'shock absorbers' of the leaders' feelings. Finally, it explores the scope and limits of the notion that the Cold War was an 'emotional regime'.
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/56826
SN  - 0959-2296
SN  - 1557-301X
VL  - 32
IS  - 4
SP  - 766
EP  - 788
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Philadelphia
ER  -