Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 263 p)
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ill
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780253348128
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0253348129
Content:
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 f
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-249) and index
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Cover; Contents; foreword by karen dawisha; acknowledgments; Living Gender; I. NEGOTIATING GENDER; 1. Housewife Fantasies, Family Realities in the New Russia; 2. Contesting Violence, Contesting Gender: Crisis Centers Encountering LocalGovernments in Barnaul, Russia; II. DENYING GENDER; 3. The Abortion Debate in Poland: Opinion Polls, Ideological Politics, Citizenship,and the Erasure of Gender as a Category of Analysis ; 4. The Gendered Body as Raw Material for Women Artists of Central Eastern Europeafter Communism; III. TRADITIONALIZING GENDER
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5. Birthday Girls, Russian Dolls, and Others: Internet Bride as the Emerging GlobalIdentity of Post-Soviet Women6. Does the Gender of MPs Matter in Postcommunist Politics? The Case of theRussian Duma, 1995-2001; IV. NEGOTIATING GENDER WITHIN NATIONALISMS; 7. Romanian Women's Discourses of Sexual Violence: Othered Ethnicities,Gendering Spaces; 8. Challenging the Discourse of Bosnian War Rapes; 9. Deficient Belarus? Insidious Gender Binaries and Hyper-feminized Nationality; Fifteen Years of the East-West Women's Dialogue; works cited; list of contributors; index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253348128
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Living Gender after Communism
Language:
English
