Abortion
Abortion debate
Abortion law
Abortion rate
Abortion-rights movements
Activism
Birth control
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Child care
Civil society
Communist state
Croatia
Division of labour
Domestic violence
Economics
Employment
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Everyday life
Exclusion
Family planning
Femininity
Feminism
Feminism (international relations)
Feminist movement
Funding
Gender equality
Gender inequality
Gender role
Household
Housewife
Ideology
Illegal abortion
Income
Institution
Kindergarten
Legislation
Liberalization
Market economy
Marketization
Mother
Newspaper
Non-governmental organization
Participation (decision making)
Physician
Political party
Politician
Politics
Poverty
Privatization
Prostitution
Public sphere
Publication
Reproductive rights
Respondent
Retirement
Salary
Sex education
Sexism
Sexual harassment
Single parent
State socialism
Trade union
Unemployment
Unemployment benefits
Unintended pregnancy
Violence against women
Welfare
Women in government
Workforce
World War II
Yugoslavia
Product details
- ISBN 9780691048680
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The striking fact that abortion was among the first issues raised, after 1989, by almost all of the newly formed governments of East Central Europe points to the significance of gender and reproduction in the postsocialist transformations. The fourteen studies in this volume result from a comparative, collaborative research project on the complex relationship between ideas and practices of gender, and political economic change. The book presents detailed evidence about women's and men's new circumstances in eight of the former communist countries, exploring the intersection of politics and the life cycle, the differential effects of economic restructuring, and women's public and political participation. Individual contributions on the former German Democratic Republic, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Romania, and Bulgaria provide rich empirical data and interpretive insights on postsocialist transformation analyzed from a gendered perspective. Drawing on multiple methods and disciplines, these original papers advance scholarship in several fields, including anthropology, sociology, women's studies, law, comparative political science, and regional studies.
The analyses make clear that practices of gender, and ideas about the differences between men and women, have been crucial in shaping the broad social changes that have followed the collapse of communism. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Eleonora Zieliaska, Eva Maleck-Lewy, Myra Marx Ferree, Sharon Wolchik, Irene Dolling, Daphne Hahn, Sylka Scholz, Mira Marody, Anna Giza-Poleszczuk, Katalin Kovacs, Monika Varadi, Julia Szalai, Adriana Baban, MaIgorzata Fuszara, Laura Grunberg, Zorica Mrsevia, Krassimira Daskalova, Joanna Goven, and Jasmina Lukia.
Susan Gal is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, and has written widely on questions of language, politics, and gender in East Central Europe. Gail Kligman is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has written widely on culture, politics, and gender in East Central Europe. She is most recently the author of The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania.
