Eastern Europe: Women in Transition

Irena Grudzińska-Gross, co-editor in chief of East European Politics and Societies – and Cultures from 2009 to 2013, teaches at the Department of Slavic Literatures at Princeton University and is Professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Science.Andrzej Tymowski, member of the editorial board of East European Politics and Societies – and Cultures from 2009 to 2013, is Director of International Programs at the American Council of Learned Societies and assistant professor in the Faculty of Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw.

• Contents: József Böröcz and Katherine Verdery: Introduction – Katherine Verdery: From Parent-State to Family Patriarchs: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Eastern Europe – Susan Gal: Gender in the Post-Socialist Transition: The Abortion Debate in Hungary – Martha Lampland: Family Portraits: Gendered Images of the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hungary – Maria Bucur: In Praise of Wellborn Mothers: On the Development of Eugenicist Gender Roles in Interwar Romania – Melissa Feinberg: Gender and the Politics of Difference in the Czech Lands after Munich – Andrea Pető: A Missing Piece? How Hungarian Women in the Communist Nomenklatura are not Remembering – Marci Shore: Czysto Babski: A Women’s Friendship in a Man’s Revolution – Carol S. Lilly/Jill A. Irvine: Negotiating Interests: Women and Nationalism in Serbia and Croatia, 1990-1997 – Éva Fodor/Lilla Vicsek: A Different Type of Gender Gap: How Women and Men Experience Poverty – Alexandra Hrycak: Foundation Feminism and the Articulation of Hybrid Feminisms in Post-Socialist Ukraine – Jessica Greenberg: «Goodbye Serbian Kennedy»: Zoran Đinđić and the New Democratic Masculinity in Serbia – Leah Seppanen Anderson: EU Gender Regulations in the East: The Czech and Polish Accession Process.