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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451506003321

Titolo

Living gender after communism [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Janet Elise Johnson and Jean C. Robinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-07546-2

9786612075469

0-253-11229-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JohnsonJanet Elise

RobinsonJean C

Disciplina

305.40947/09049

Soggetti

Women - Europe - History - 20th century

Feminism - Europe - History - 20th century

Women - Europe - Social conditions - 20th century

Post-communism - Europe - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Housewife fantasies, family realities in the new Russia / Tania Rands Lyon -- Contesting violence, contesting gender : crisis centers encountering local governments in Barnaul, Russia / Janet Elise Johnson -- ; The abortion debate in Poland : opinion polls, ideological politics, citizenship, and the erasure of gender as a category of analysis / Anne-Marie Kramer -- ; The gendered body as raw material for women artists of Central Eastern Europe after communism / Ewa Grigar -- Birthday girls, Russian dolls, and others : Internet bride as the emerging global identity of post-Soviet women / Svitlana Taraban -- Does the gender of MPs matter in postcommunist politics? : the case of the Russian Duma, 1995-2001 / Iulia Shevchenko -- Romanian women's discourses of sexual violence : othered ethnicities, gendering spaces / Shannon Woodcock -- Challenging the discourse of Bosnian war rapes / Azra Hromadzic -- Deficient Belarus? : insidious gender binaries and hyper-feminized nationality / Anna Brzozowska -- Fifteen years of the East-West women's dialogue / Nanette Funk.



Sommario/riassunto

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 ident