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Volume 4, 2010

Gender, the Body, and Sexuality

Women and War

The first section on Gender, the Body, and Sexuality explores issues that have been of fundamental importance to womens and gender studies since the 1970s. The second section brings together work on women and war, as well as contributions that focus on media representation of women during times of war with special attention paid to the Second World War.

The Forum section in this volume brings together specialists in womens and gender studies from Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Serbia/former Yugoslavia and Hungary to...

In the years after the fall of communist governments in Central, Eastern, and South- eastern Europe (CESEE), a flood of memoir literature began to fill bookstores around the region. The turn to autobiography and personal narrative inspired the theme section in this volume of "Aspasia": women's auto-biographical writing and correspondence. Articles in this section examine women's autobiographical writing in the second half of the nineteenth century and women's written memories of epochal moments in the Soviet past: the Holodomor (or Great Famine) that convulsed Ukraine in the aftermath of...

Volume 5 2011

Gendering the History of Spiritualities and Secularisms in Southeastern Europe

Guest Editors: Pam Ballinger and Kristen Ghodsee

Scholars of religion have increasingly brought secularism within the framework of critical studies of spirituality, analyzing the dialogic relationship between religions and secularisms past and present. This emerging field of "postsecularist" studies examines the multiple meanings and practices that different cultures and societies attach to the concepts of "religion," "faith," and "piety." The pieces presented in this special issue of...

Volume 6 2012

A Hundred Years of International Women's Day in CESE

The year 2010 marked the centennial of International Women's Day (IWD); the year 2011 marked the centennial of its first celebrations, which took place in Austria, Denmark, Germany, partitioned Poland, Switzerland, and no doubt other places. Inspired by these events, the theme section of this volume deals with "A Hundred Years of International Women's Day in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe," with articles focusing on Russia, the Polish lands, and Greece. These three articles discuss the different meanings...