Introduction. growing together? : processes and problems of German unification / Konrad H. Jarausch -- Decades of unity : continuity and change in political institutions / Gero Neugebauer -- United, yet separate : a view from the East / Heinrich Bortfeldt -- Debates and perceptions about German unification : the centrality of discourse / Helga A. Welsh -- Institutional coping : the Treuhandanstalt and the collapse of the East German economy, 1989-1990 / Wolfgang Seibel -- East Germany 1989-2010 : a fragmented development / Rainer Land -- Getting even : East German economic underperformance after unification / Jonathan R. Zatlin -- And the crisis of feminist politics / Ute Gerhard -- Women's movements in East Germany : are we in Europe yet? / Ingrid Miethe -- Feminist encounters : Germany, the EU, and beyond / Myra Marx Ferree -- After the GDR? restoring literature's standing / Klaus R. Scherpe -- Unity and difference : some reflections on a disparate field / Frank Hornigk -- The painful exit from the cold war : East German writers and the demise of the reading culture / Frank Trommler -- The "normalization" of humanitarian and military missions abroad / Beate Neuss -- German foreign policy after 1990 : some critical remarks / Erhard Crome -- "To deploy or not to deploy" : the erratic evolution of German foreign policy since unification / Andrew I. Port.