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Record Nr.

UNISA996248008203316

Autore

Gal Susan <1949->

Titolo

The Politics of Gender after Socialism : A Comparative-Historical Essay / / Gail Kligman, Susan Gal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2012]

©2000

ISBN

1-283-38009-9

9786613380098

1-4008-4300-6

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Disciplina

305.3/0947

Soggetti

Post-communism - Europe, Eastern

Sex role - Europe, Eastern

Europe, Eastern Social conditions 1989-

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. [141]-162) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. After Socialism -- 2. Reproduction As Politics -- 3. Dilemmas Of Public And Private -- 4. Forms Of States, Forms Of "Family" -- 5. Arenas of Political Action -- 6. Gender and Change -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

With the collapse of communism, a new world seemed to open for the peoples of East Central Europe. The possibilities this world presented, and the costs it exacted, have been experienced differently by men and women. Susan Gal and Gail Kligman explore these differences through a probing analysis of the role of gender in reshaping politics and social relations since 1989. The authors raise two crucial questions: How are gender relations and ideas about gender shaping political and economic change in the region? And what forms of gender inequality are emerging as a result? The book provides a rich understanding of gender relations and their significance in social and institutional transformations. Gal and Kligman offer a systematic comparison of East Central European gender relations with those of western welfare states, and with the presocialist, bourgeois past. Throughout this essay, the authors attend to historical comparisons as well as cross regional



interactions and contrasts. Their work contributes importantly to the study of post socialism, and to the broader feminist literature that critically examines how states and political-economic processes are gendered, and how states and markets regulate gender relations.