Gender And Power In Eastern Europe

Author : Katharina Bluhm,Gertrud Pickhan,Justyna Stypinska,Agnieszka Wierzcholska
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030531300

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Gender and Power in Eastern Europe by Katharina Bluhm,Gertrud Pickhan,Justyna Stypinska,Agnieszka Wierzcholska Pdf

This book explores the contradictory development of gender roles in Central and Eastern Europe including Russia. In light of the social changes that followed the collapse of communism and the rise of new conservatism in Eastern Europe, it studies new forms of gender relationships and reassesses the status quo of female empowerment. Moreover, leading scholars in gender studies discuss how right-wing populism and conservative movements have affected sociopolitical discourses and concepts related to gender roles, rights, and attitudes, and how Western feminism in the 1990s may have contributed to this conservative turn. Mainly focusing on power constellations and gender, the book is divided into four parts: the first explores the history of and recent trends in feminist movements in Eastern Europe, while the second highlights the dynamics and conflicts that gained momentum after neoconservative parties gained political power in post-socialist countries. In turn, the third part discusses new empowerment strategies and changes in gender relationships. The final part illustrates the identities, roles, and concepts of masculinity created in the sociocultural and political context of Eastern Europe.

Author : Sharon L. Wolchik,Alfred G. Meyer
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822399902

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Women, State, and Party in Eastern Europe by Sharon L. Wolchik,Alfred G. Meyer Pdf

These essays, by American, Canadian, and East European scholars, provide a comprehensive look at the status of women in Eastern Europe, with particular emphasis on the postwar situation.

Author : Nancy M. Wingfield,Maria Bucur
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253111935

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Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe by Nancy M. Wingfield,Maria Bucur Pdf

This volume explores the role of gender on both the home and fighting fronts in eastern Europe during World Wars I and II. By using gender as a category of analysis, the authors seek to arrive at a more nuanced understanding of the subjective nature of wartime experience and its representations. While historians have long equated the fighting front with the masculine and the home front with the feminine, the contributors challenge these dichotomies, demonstrating that they are based on culturally embedded assumptions about heroism and sacrifice. Major themes include the ways in which wartime experiences challenge traditional gender roles; postwar restoration of gender order; collaboration and resistance; the body; and memory and commemoration.

Author : Nanette Funk,Magda Mueller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429759000

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Gender Politics and Post-Communism by Nanette Funk,Magda Mueller Pdf

In the wake of communism’s decline, women’s concerns had become increasingly important in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Yet most discussions of post-communism changes had neglected women’s experiences. Originally published in 1993, this title was the first collection of its kind, presenting original essays by women scholars, politicians, activists, and former dissidents from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, along with essays by Western feminists and scholars. They discuss gender politics during the often turbulent transition and crises of post-communism, offering vivid accounts and analyses of the conditions facing women in each country.

Author : Katalin Fábián,Janet Elise Johnson,Mara Lazda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429792298

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The Routledge Handbook of Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia by Katalin Fábián,Janet Elise Johnson,Mara Lazda Pdf

This Handbook is the key reference for contemporary historical and political approaches to gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Leading scholars examine the region’s highly diverse politics, histories, cultures, ethnicities, and religions, and how these structures intersect with gender alongside class, sexuality, coloniality, and racism. Comprising 51 chapters, the Handbook is divided into six thematic parts: Part I Conceptual debates and methodological differences Part II Feminist and women’s movements cooperating and colliding Part III Constructions of gender in different ideologies Part IV Lived experiences of individuals in different regimes Part V The ambiguous postcommunist transitions Part VI Postcommunist policy issues With a focus on defining debates, the collection considers how the shared experiences, especially communism, affect political forces’ organization of gender through a broad variety of topics including feminisms, ideology, violence, independence, regime transition, and public policy. It is a foundational collection that will become invaluable to scholars and students across a range of disciplines including Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Central-Eastern European and Eurasian Studies.

Author : S. Penn,J. Massino
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780230101579

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Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe by S. Penn,J. Massino Pdf

This book showcases extensive research on gender under state socialism, examining the subject in terms of state policy and law; sexuality and reproduction; the academy; leisure; the private sphere; the work world; opposition activism; and memory and identity.

Author : Richard E. Matland,Kathleen A. Montgomery
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191529924

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Women's Access to Political Power in Post-Communist Europe by Richard E. Matland,Kathleen A. Montgomery Pdf

This book considers women's access to formal positions of powers in the newly formed democracies of post communist Europe. While acknowledging the relevance of recent history, this book takes an important step away from the communist legacy and explicitly argues for a framework based on causal variables identified in the existing literatures from industrialized democracies on women and politics and legislative recruitment After a brief introduction, the second chapter sets forth a general theoretical framework, which posits that the level of female legislative representation in a given country is a function of the relative supply of and demand for female candidates. After a chapter considering a broad overview of public opinion on women and politics in Eastern Europe, thirteen country chapters, spanning the spectrum of Eastern European democracies, address and test hypotheses about the key variables affecting the supply and demand sides of the equation in individual countries. Relevant aspects of the communist cultural and developmental legacy are addressed, but authors give particular attention to political factors, such as electoral rules and the characteristics of the emerging party systems, that vary within the Eastern European countries. The new democracies of Eastern Europe provide a novel context in which to test and extend our theories about the consequences of political institutions for the quality of democracy. Since institutional arrangements are more malleable than developmental or cultural characteristics, those variables also offer the greatest promise to scholars and practitioners wondering what can be done to improve women's access to formal arenas of political power? How can we build democracies that are stable, lasting and representative? A careful analysis of the post-communist context can help us to address issues concerning institutional design and development that has relevance well beyond the Eastern European context.

Author : Joanna Regulska,Bonnie G. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136454806

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Women and Gender in Postwar Europe by Joanna Regulska,Bonnie G. Smith Pdf

Women and Gender in Postwar Europe charts the experiences of women across Europe from 1945 to the present day. Europe at the end of World War II was a sorry testimony to the human condition; awash in corpses, the infrastructure devastated, food and fuel in such short supply. From Soviet Union to the United Kingdom and Ireland the vast majority of citizens on whom survival depended, in the postwar years, were women. This book charts the involvement of women in postwar reconstruction through the Cold War and post Cold-War years with chapters on the economic, social, and political dynamism that characterized Europe from the 1950s onwards, and goes on to look at the woman’s place in a rebuilt Europe that was both more prosperous and as tension-filled as before. The chapters both look at broad trends across both eastern and western Europe; such as the horrific aftermath of World War II, but also present individual case studies that illustrate those broad trends in the historical development of women’s lives and gender roles. The case studies show difference and diversity across Europe whilst also setting the experience of women in a particular country within the broader historical issues and trends, in such topics as work, professionalization, sexuality, consumerism, migration, and activism. The introduction and conclusion provide an overview that integrates the chapters into the more general history of this important period. This will be an essential resource for students of women and gender studies and for post 1945 courses.

Author : Giovanni Razzu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317327950

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Gender Inequality in the Eastern European Labour Market by Giovanni Razzu Pdf

Under communism there was, in the countries of Eastern Europe, a high level of gender equality in the labour market, particularly in terms of high participation rates by women. The transition from communism has upset this situation, with different impacts in the different countries. This book presents a comprehensive overview of gender and the labour market since the fall of communism in a wide range of Eastern European countries. Each country chapter describes the nature of inequality in the particular country, and goes on to examine the factors responsible for this, including government policies, changing social attitudes, levels of educational attainment and the impact of motherhood. Overall, the book provides an interesting comparison to the situation in Western developed countries, outlining differences and similarities. No one single Eastern European model emerges while, as in Western developed countries, a range of experiences and trends is the norm.

Author : Catherine Baker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350307773

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Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the USSR by Catherine Baker Pdf

A concise and accessible introduction to the gender histories of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the 20th century. These essays juxtapose established topics in gender history such as motherhood, masculinities, work and activism with newer areas, such as the history of imprisonment and the transnational history of sexuality. By collecting these essays in a single volume, Catherine Baker encourages historians to look at gender history across borders and time periods, emphasising that evidence and debates from Eastern Europe can inform broader approaches to contemporary gender history.

Author : Mary Zirin,Irina Livezeanu,Christine D. Worobec,June Pachuta Farris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2091 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317451976

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Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia by Mary Zirin,Irina Livezeanu,Christine D. Worobec,June Pachuta Farris Pdf

This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.

Author : Gabriele Jähnert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Feminism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029713869

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Gender in Transition in Eastern and Central Europe Proceedings by Gabriele Jähnert Pdf

Author : Triin Roosalu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137371096

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Rethinking Gender, Work and Care in a New Europe by Triin Roosalu Pdf

Given the growing importance of Eastern European countries in the development of the EU, there is an urgent need to reconstruct the recent dynamic developments in women's work and care in these societies, and the socio-political determinants thereof. Considering their specific cultural, economic and historical development, it can be assumed that the trends and determinants of women's labour market trajectories in CEE countries differ significantly from those in the other European countries that have frequently made up the basis for established theories in social and labour market research. This being the case, can 'standard' theoretical approaches, mostly modelled on evidence from Western Europe, be transferred to the analysis of Eastern European countries? This edited collection scrutinises pivotal aspects of women's careers in Eastern Europe, providing a detailed overview of trends and determinants of women's employment in Eastern Europe, and reflecting critically on theoretical approaches in social and labour market research.

Author : Joanna Regulska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351872386

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Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe by Joanna Regulska Pdf

The transformations seen in women's active citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe mirror the social political and economic transformations in the region since the fall of communism at the end of the 1980s. This book challenges the universal notion of 'citizenship' by focusing on the diversity of situations women in this region have found themselves in since the end of the 1980s, looking at the challenges and struggles they have faced to assert themselves as citizens and their citizenship rights. Featuring detailed case studies which demonstrate the social and political discrimination between women that still exists, the book will be of interest to academics and post-graduate students in women's/gender studies, political sociology and European studies.

Author : Teresa Kulawik,Zhanna Kravchenko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000707489

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Borderlands in European Gender Studies by Teresa Kulawik,Zhanna Kravchenko Pdf

Challenging persistent geopolitical asymmetries in feminist knowledge production, this collection depicts collisions between concepts and lived experiences, between academic feminism and political activism, between the West as generalizable and the East as the concrete Other. Borderlands in European Gender Studies narrows the gap between cultural analysis and social theory, addressing feminist theory’s epistemological foundations and its capacity to confront the legacies of colonialism and socialism. The contributions demonstrate the enduring worth of feminist concepts for critical analysis, conceptualize resistance to multiple forms of oppression, and identify the implications of the decoupling of cultural and social feminist critique for the analysis of gender relations in a postsocialist space. This book will be of import to activists and researchers in women’s and gender studies, comparative gender politics and policy, political science, sociology, contemporary history, and European studies. It is suitable for use as a supplemental text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in a range of fields.