Gender Politics and Post-Communism: Reflections from Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

ISBN-13: 9781138388178 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 358 str.

Nanette Funk; Magda Mueller

Opis

In the wake of communism’s decline, women’s concerns had become increasingly important in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. First published in 1993, this title was the first of its kind, presenting original essays by women scholars, politicians, activists, and former dissidents, along with essays by Western feminists and scholars.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments.  Introduction: Women and Post-Communism  Bulgaria  1. Thinking Gender: Bulgarian Women’s Im/possibilities  2. The Winding Road to Emancipation in Bulgaria  3. The Bulgarian Case: Women’s Issues or Feminist Issues?  Romania  4. Women in Romania  5. Women in Romania: Before and After the Collapse  Czech and Slovak Republics  6. A Few Prefeminist Thoughts  7. Are Women in Central and Eastern Europe Conservative?  8. The Emancipation of Women: A Concept that Failed  9. The Impact of the Transition from Communism on the Status of Women in the Czech and Slovak Republics  Former Yugoslavia  10. Women and Nationalism in the Former Yugoslavia  11. Women and the New Democracy in the Former Yugoslavia  12. Women’s Time in the Former Yugoslavia  Former German Democratic Republic  13. Women in the German Democratic Republic and in the New Federal States: Looking Backward and Forward (Five Theses)  14. The Women’s Question as a Democratic Question: In Search of Civil Society  15. Lesbians and their Emancipation in the Former German Democratic Republic: Past and Future  16. "But the Pictures Stay the Same …" The Image of Women in the Journal Für Dich Before and After the "Turning Point"  17. The Organized Women’s Movement in the Collapse of the GDR: The Independent Women’s Association (UFV)  18. Abortion and German Unification  Hungary  19. "Totalitarian Lib": The Legacy of Communism for Hungarian Women  20. Feminism and Hungary  21. No Envy, No Pity  22. Gender Politics in Hungary: Autonomy and Antifeminism  Poland  23. Abortion and the Formation of the Public Sphere in Poland  24. Political Change in Poland: Cause, Modifier, or Barrier to Gender Equality?  25. Feminism in the Interstices of Politics and Culture: Poland in Transition  Former USSR-Commonwealth of Independent States  26. Soviet Women at the Crossroads of Perestroika  27. Finding a Voice: The Emergence of a Women’s Movement  Reflections from Outside  28. Eastern European Male Democracies: A Problem of Unequal Equality  29. Feminism East and West.  Contributors.  Index.

O autorze

Magda Mueller, Nanette Funk