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Author : Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru,Mădălina Nicolaescu,Helen Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : East European literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122927960
Author : Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru,Mădălina Nicolaescu,Helen Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : East European literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123523511
Author : Nanette Funk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008846516
Comprises essays by women scholars, activists and former dissidents from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Discusses gender politics during post-communist transition, and analyses the conditions facing women in each country.
Author : Annie Phizacklea,Hilary Pilkington,Shirin Rai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136129964
The years 1989 and 1990 will probably be best remembered for the speed and breadth of political and economic change which swept through what used to be referred to as the Communist Bloc. With the disintegration of this bloc, there has been no shortage of western advice on how to `democratize' economy and politiy in these societies. However, little thought has been given to what this change means for the millions of women who have toiled for decades alongside men in the factories and fields as well as performing their `womanly mission' in the home. This collection from women in Eastern and Western Europe, and covering both Europe and China, poses many questions about the impact of change. It contributes to the debate that seeks to combat inertia and ethnocentrism within western feminism and also to the separate and the critical `women's voice' which is re-emerging in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China.
Author : Marilyn Rueschemeyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X004192796
Sixteen contributions seek to explore what has happened to women during the various stages of transition from communism to a market economy and multiparty political system. Contributors are social scientists attempting to understand the relations of political institutions to the emerging conception of women's place in the new social and political orders. Countries studied include Russia, Germany, Poland, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Romania, the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Albania. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Iveta Jusová,Jirina Šiklová
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253021939
Sixteen essays “apply the intersectional theory in an inspiring way in the analysis of gender issues in the past and in contemporary Czech society” (Aspasia). In this wide-ranging study of women’s and gender issues in the pre- and post-1989 Czech Republic, contributors engage with current feminist debates and theories of nation and identity to examine the historical and cultural transformations of Czech feminism. This collection of essays by leading scholars, artists, and activists, explores such topics as reproductive rights, state socialist welfare provisions, Czech women’s NGOs, anarchofeminism, human trafficking, LGBT politics, masculinity, feminist art, among others. Foregrounding experiences of women and sexual and ethnic minorities in the Czech Republic, the contributors raise important questions about the transfer of feminist concepts across languages and cultures. As the economic orthodoxy of the European Union threatens to occlude relevant stories of the different national communities comprising the Eurozone, this book contributes to the understanding of the diverse origins from which something like a European community arises. “While the collection demands that we understand Czech uniqueness, at the same time it is at its best when this uniqueness comes into focus through comparative study.” —Feminist Review “A colorful bouquet offering an overview of directions taken by Czech feminist scholarship since the 1990s.” —Slavic Review
Author : Mary Zirin,Irina Livezeanu,Christine D. Worobec,June Pachuta Farris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2121 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317451976
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 : Janet Elise Johnson,Jean C. Robinson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253112293
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.
Author : Simona Mitroiu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110766615
This book analyzes the impact of abusive regimes of power on women’s lives and on their self-expression through close readings of life writing by women in communist Romania. In particular, it examines the forms of agency and privacy available to women under totalitarianism and the modes of relationships in which their lives were embedded. The self-expression and self-reflexive processes that are to be found in the body of Romanian women’s autobiographical writings this study presents create complex private narratives that underpin the creative development of inclusive memories of the past through shared responsibility and shared agency. At the same time, however, the way these private, personal narratives intertwined with collective and official historical narratives exemplifies the multidimensional nature of privacy as well as the radical redefinition of agency in this period. This book argues for a broader understanding of the narratives of the communist past, one that reflects the complexity of individual and social interactions and allows a deep exploration of the interconnected relations between memory, trauma, nostalgia, agency, and privacy.
Author : Urszula Chowaniec,Ursula Phillips
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781443847087
Every time a so-called “woman’s voice” appears in the media in connection with any sphere of creative activity, it finds itself confronted by the almost formulaic expression “feminism today,” instantaneously suggesting that feminism is, in fact, a matter of the past, and that if we want to return to this phenomenon, then we need to explain ourselves. Women’s Voices and Feminism in Polish Cultural Memory seeks to elaborate the problem of generalization, expressed by such formulas as “feminism today,” while analysing how feminist sympathies have shaped Polish literature, film and language. This volume does not want to impose any hegemonic understanding of “feminism,” or imply any a priori ideological assumptions about women’s “nature” or role in society. It seeks to identify what is particular to the Polish feminist experience. It starts by asking such questions as “what is feminism today?” or “what can we learn from the history of Polish women’s writing?” In answering these questions, the women scholars who have contributed to the volume examine Polish cultural history and memory in the context of the transformations, transitions and catastrophes of the last two centuries, whilst firmly rooting Polish experience within the common European heritage.
Author : Marilyn Rueschemeyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315292632
During the Communist period, in most of these contries, even women with small children typically worked outside the home, and their participation in formal institutions was virtually mandatory. Today, as they are being disproportionately affected by marketization, downsizing, the dramatic erosion of social services, and as their sons are being drafted to participate in an unending series of border wars, have women found a new political voice?
Author : Marcel Cornis-Pope,John Neubauer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027287861
Types and stereotypes is the fourth and last volume of a path-breaking multinational literary history that incorporates innovative features relevant to the writing of literary history in general. Instead of offering a traditional chronological narrative of the period 1800-1989, the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe approaches the region’s literatures from five complementary angles, focusing on literature’s participation in and reaction to key political events, literary periods and genres, the literatures of cities and sub-regions, literary institutions, and figures of representation. The main objective of the project is to challenge the self-enclosure of national literatures in traditional literary histories, to contextualize them in a regional perspective, and to recover individual works, writers, and minority literatures that national histories have marginalized or ignored. Types and stereotypes brings together articles that rethink the figures of National Poets, figurations of the Family, Women, Outlaws, and Others, as well as figures of Trauma and Mediation. As in the previous three volumes, the historical and imaginary figures discussed here constantly change and readjust to new political and social conditions. An Epilogue complements the basic history, focusing on the contradictory transformations of East-Central European literary cultures after 1989. This volume will be of interest to the region’s literary historians, to students and teachers of comparative literature, to cultural historians, and to the general public interested in exploring the literatures of a rich and resourceful cultural region.
Author : Marilyn Rueschemeyer,Sharon L. Wolchik
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124161246
This book examines the life and work of women who have reached positions of political power after the end of communism in Europe. It explores the roles they have adopted, the relationships they have cultivated, and the agendas they have pursued. This volume treats the issues comparatively, in six countries -- the Czech Republic, Germany (with a focus on the former GDR), Slovenia, Bulgaria, Poland, and Russia. It also includes interviews with and written statements by the very "women in power" discussed in the first half of the book, giving voice to their common and divergent experiences as political actors within an environment of stormy economies and new foreign engagements, particularly with the European Union.
Author : Celia Hawkesworth
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789633864685
Women are conspicuously absent from traditional cultural histories of south-east Europe. This book addresses that imbalance by describing the contribution of women to literary culture in the Orthodox/ Ottoman areas of Serbia and Bosnia. The first complete literary history in relation to women's writing in south-east Europe. The author provides a broad chronological account of this contribution, dividing the book into two main parts; the earlier period up until the eighteenth century concentrates on the projections of gender through the medium of oral tradition and the lives of a handful of educated women in medieval Serbia and the few works of literature they left. Hawkesworth also looks at the written literature produced by women, first in the mid-nineteenth century and then at the turn of the century. The second part focuses on the trials and tribulations that affected feminism and women's literature throughout the twentieth century. The author finishes by highlighting the new women's movement, 1975-1990, a great period for women in Yugoslavia which created a stimulating atmosphere for outstanding pieces of women's journalism, prose and verse, culminating in the creation of new women's studies courses in many universities.
Author : Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru,Madalina Nicolaescu,Helen Smith
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783643904485
This collection focuses on a variety of fictional and non-fictional East European women's migration narratives, multimodal narratives by migrant artists, and cyber narratives (blogs and personal stories posted on forums). The book negotiates the concept of narrative between conventional literary forms, digital discourses, and the social sciences. It brings together new perspectives on strategies of representation, trauma, dislocation, and gender roles. It also claims a place for Eastern Europe on the map of transnational feminism. (Series: Contributions to Transnational Feminism - Vol. 4) [Subject: Sociology, European Studies, Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Migration Studies]