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In the wake of communism's decline, women's concerns had become increasingly important in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Yet most discussions of post-communism changes had neglected women's experiences.
Originally published in 1993, this title was the first collection of its kind, presenting original essays by women scholars, politicians, activists, and former dissidents from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, along with essays by Western feminists and scholars. They discuss gender politics during the often turbulent transition and crises of post-communism, offering vivid accounts and analyses of the conditions facing women in each country.
List of contents
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.
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Magda Mueller, Nanette Funk
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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.
