Gender, Generations, and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9780367522216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 352 str.

Opis

The volume offers an exploration of communism in Central and Eastern Europe through the prism of generation and gender. Both concepts are used as analytical categories to study Europe’s past and present. The book is comprised of methodological approaches and interdisciplinary case studies.

Spis treści

Introduction;  Part I: The Logic of Gender and Generation(s): Theoretical Approaches;  1. Generational and Gendered Memory of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe: Methodological Perspectives and Political Challenges;  2. Acting and Memory, Hope and Guilt: The Bond of Generations in Arendt, Benjamin, Heine, and Freud;  Part II: Generations and Gender in Historical Contexts: Comparative Case Studies;  3 Communism, Left Feminism, and Generations in the 1930s: The Case of Yugoslavia;  4. Communisms, Generations, and Waves: The Cases of Italy, Yugoslavia, and Cuba;  5. Generations of Italian Communist Women and the Making of a Women’s Rights Agenda in the Cold War (1945–68): Historiography, Memory, and New Archival Evidence;  6. The Making of Turkish Migrant Left Feminism and Political Generations in the Ruhr, West Germany (1975–90);  Part III: Women’s Biographical Experiences and Communism;  7. "Old" Women and "Old" Revolution: The Role of Gender and Generation in Postwar Polish Communist Women’s Political Biographies;  8. Biographical Experience and Knowledge Production: Women Sociologists and Gender Issues in Communist Poland;  9. Without Tradition and Without Female Generation? The Case of Czech Artist Ester Krumbachová;  Part IV: Aesthetic Representations of Gendered Generations in Communism and Beyond;  10. Girls from the Polish Youth Union: (Dis)remembrance of the Generation;  11. "We’re Easy to Spot": Soviet Generation(s) After Soviet Era and the Invention of the Self in Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets;  12. Entering Gray Zones: Questions of Female Identity, Political Commitment, and Personal Choices in Jiřina Šiklová’s Memoir of Life Under Socialism and Beyond;  13. Gender, Generational Conflict, and Communism: Tonia Lechtman’s Story;  Conclusion: From "Communism as Male Generational History" to a More Inclusive Narrative