Gender Regimes in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe

This book uses recent debates on welfare regimes and gender to illuminate the changing gender regimes in countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It has particular significance as countries in the region make the transition from communism into a European Union with issues of women's employment and gender equality at the heart of its social policy.

List of contents

Introduction: gender and the family under communism and after; Gender regimes in Central and Eastern Europe; Policy and parents in Poland; Mothers and the state; Mothers and their households; Mothers and social policy; Gender equality in the wider Europe; Conclusion.

About the author

Gillian Pascall is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Nottingham, UK. She has a long-standing interest in the relationship between gender and welfare states. Anna Kwak is a professor in the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw, Poland. She has written widely on the family and on children's rights.

Summary

This book uses recent debates on welfare regimes and gender to illuminate the changing gender regimes in countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It has particular significance as countries in the region make the transition from communism into a European Union with issues of women's employment and gender equality at the heart of its social policy.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Kwak, Anna (Institute of Applied Social Sciences Kwak, Gillian Pascall, Gillian (School of Sociology and Social Policy Pascall
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781847424204
• ISBN: 978-1-84742-420-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 360 g
• Series: Policy Press Publications (All; Policy Press Publications (All
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Polen, Politik der National- Zentral- oder Bundesregierung