Living Gender After Communism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

How has the collapse of communism across Europe and Eurasia changed gender? In addition to acknowledging the huge costs that fell heavily on women, Living Gender after Communism suggests that moving away from communism in Europe and Eurasia has provided an opportunity for gender to multiply, from varieties of neo-traditionalism to feminisms, from overt negotiation of femininity to denials of gender. This development,in turn, has enabled some women in the region to construct their own gendered identities for their own political, economic, or social purposes. Beginning with an understanding of gender as both a society-wide institution that regulates people's lives and a cultural "toolkit" which individuals and groups may use to subvert or "transvalue" the sex/gender system, the contributors to this volume provide detailed case studies from Belarus, Bosnia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine. This collaboration between young scholars—most from postcommunist states—and experts in the fields of gender studies and postcommunism combines intimate knowledge of the area with sophisticated gender analysis to examine just how much gender realities have shifted in the region.Contributors are Anna Brzozowska, Karen Dawisha, Nanette Funk, Ewa Grigar, Azra Hromadzic, Janet Elise Johnson, Anne-Marie Kramer, Tania Rands Lyon, Jean C. Robinson, Iulia Shevchenko, Svitlana Taraban, and Shannon Woodcock.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-12-12
Mått:156 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Indiana University Press
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Indiana University Press
ISBN:9780253348128

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Mer om författaren

Janet Elise Johnson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.Jean C. Robinson is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. She is co-editor of Women and Social Policy: From Local to Global, a special issue of NWSA Journal.

Recensioner i media

". . . this volume will interest a wide variety of gender and regional specialists who are searching for new ways to study the multidimensional nature of post-communism."—The Russian Review

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsForeword by Karen DawishaAcknowledgmentsLiving GenderJanet Elise Johnson and Jean C. RobinsonI. Negotiating Gender1. Housewife Fantasies, Family Realities in the New RussiaTania Rands Lyon2. Contesting Violence, Contesting Gender: Crisis Centers Encountering Local Governments in Barnaul, RussiaJanet Elise JohnsonII. Denying Gender3. The Abortion Debate in Poland: Opinion Polls, Ideological Politics, Citizenship, and the Erasure of Gender as a Category of AnalysisAnne-Marie Kramer4. The Gendered Body as Raw Material for Women Artists of Central Eastern Europe after CommunismEwa GrigarIII. Traditionalizing Gender5. Birthday Girls, Russian Dolls, and Others: Internet Bride as the Emerging Global Identity of Post-Soviet WomenSvitlana Taraban6. Does the Gender of MPs Matter in Postcommunist Politics? The Case of the Russian Duma, 1995–2001Iulia ShevchenkoIV. Negotiating Gender within Nationalisms7. Romanian Women's Discourses of Sexual Violence: Othered Ethnicities, Gendering SpacesShannon Woodcock8. Challenging the Discourse of Bosnian War RapesAzra Hromadzic9. Deficient Belarus? Insidious Gender Binaries and Hyper-feminized NationalityAnna BrzozowskaFifteen Years of the East-West Women's DialogueNanette FunkWorks CitedList of ContributorsIndex