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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456017103321

Autore

True Jacqui

Titolo

Gender, globalization, and postsocialism [[electronic resource] ] : the Czech Republic after communism / / Jacqui True

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, c2003

ISBN

0-231-50177-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Disciplina

305.3/094371

Soggetti

Sex role - Czech Republic

Man-woman relationships - Czech Republic

Sexual division of labor - Czech Republic

Women - Czech Republic - Social conditions

Social structure - Czech Republic

Globalization

Feminist economics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Gender, Globalization, and Post socialism -- 2. Gendering State Socialism -- 3. Refashioning the Family -- 4. Establishing Labor Markets -- 5. Expanding Consumer Markets -- 6. Importing Civil Society -- 7. Engendering Global Political Economy -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

How are changing gender relations shaping and being shaped by post-socialist marketization and liberalization? Do new forms of economic and cultural globalization open spaces for women's empowerment and feminist politics? The rapid social transformations experienced by the people of the Czech Republic in the wake of the collapse of communism in 1989 afford political scientist Jacqui True with an opportunity to answer these questions by examining political and gendered identities in flux. She argues that the privatization of a formerly state economy and the adoption of consumer-oriented market practices were shaped by ideas and attitudes about gender roles. Though finely tuned to the particular, local traditions that have defined



the boundaries of globalization for Czech men and women, Gender, Globalization, and Postsocialism also offers a provocative general thesis about the inextricable linkages between political and economic changes and gender identities.