An Era of Value Change The Long 1970s in Europe

Fiammetta Balestracci, Independent scholar,Isabel Richter, German Historial Institute Washington, Pacific Office Berkeley,Christina von Hodenburg, German Historical Institute London and Queen Mary University of London

Fiammetta Balestracci is a specialist in contemporary history with interests in the history of Germany, the history of the Italian Communist Party, and the history of sexuality. She obtained her Ph.D at the University of Milan and was recently awarded her habilitation in Italy. In 2017-19 she was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to focus on the transformation of female sexuality in Italy and Germany during the long 1970s. She has worked at many Italian and European universities and research institutes, including Queen Mary University of London and LMU Munich.

Isabel Richter is a Deputy Director at the German Historical Institute Washington DC where she has led the GHI Pacific Office at the University of California, Berkeley since autumn 2023. She studied modern history, German studies, and Spanish and received her Ph.D. in modern history from the TU Berlin and her habilitation from the Ruhr University Bochum. Her research interests include German cultural history (late eighteenth century to the present), National Socialism and its aftermath, resistance and countercultures in the twentieth century, the global 1960s, and the history of life stages (youth, ageing, end of life, and death).

Christina von Hodenberg is the Director of the German Historical Institute London (GHIL) and a Professor in European History at Queen Mary University of London. She has written five monographs in the fields of media history, social protest, and gender history. Her most recent book, a revisionist account of the late 1960s protest movements, will be published as The Other 1968: Social History of a West German Revolt with Oxford University Press in 2024.

Introduction1. The Long 1970s in Europe as a Transformational Period towards Post-Rational Values, Fiammetta Balestracci, Isabel Richter, and Christina von HodenbergI. Social Scientists and Theories of Value Change2. Modernization and the Fate of the Nation-State: Expert Debates in West Germany and the United States during the Long 1970s, Martin Deuerlein3. Changing Values and Social Knowledge: The Social Indicators Movement, Quality of Life Studies, and the 'Silent Revolution' in the 1970s, Pascal Germann4. Historicizing Love and Partnership: A Grass-Roots Perspective on Value Change in Marriage in East Germany, Lisa DittrichII. Experiments with the Post-Rational Self5. Youth Cultures, New Religiosities in West Germany, and the Search for Meaning in the Long 1970s, Isabel Richter6. Goodbye Reforms, Hello Kaif: The Shift from Intellectual Dissent to a Nonconformism of Feeling(s) in the later Soviet Union, Juliane Fürst7. Ecstatic Bodies as Actors of Change: Drugs and Sexuality in West Germany's Alternative Milieu during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Kristoff KerlIII. Consumerism and Politics8. 'Full board with a pang of conscience': Value Changes and Tourist Travel to the Western European Dictatorships, Patricia Hertel9. Towards Expressive Humanitarianism: The Formative Experience of Biafra, Norbert GötzIV. Rethinking Gendered Bodies10. Feminism, the Sexual Revolution, and the Embodied Political Subject in France, Maud Anne Bracke11. Body Politics in the Barrios: The Long 1970s in Spain, Roseanna Webster12. Vamps, Wives, and (Im?)Potent Socialist Heroes: An Explorative Study of Sex and Power in Polish TV Series from the 1970s, Kinga S. BlochNotes on ContributorsIndex