Reproducing Gender : : Politics, Publics, and Everyday Life after Socialism / / ed. by Gail Kligman, Susan Gal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Băban, Adriana,; Daskalova, Krassimira,; Dölling, Irene,; Ferree, Myra Marx,; Fuszara, Małgorzata,; Gal, Susan,; Giza-Poleszczuk, Anna,; Goven, Joanna,; Grunberg, Laura,; Hahn, Daphne,; Kligman, Gail,; Kovács, Katalin,; Lukić, Jasmina,; Maleck-Lewy, Eva,; Marody, Mira,; Mršević, Zorica,; Scholz, Sylka,; Szalai, Júlia,; Váradi, Mónika,; Wolchik, Sharon L.,; Zielińska, Eleonora,
• HerausgeberIn: Gal, Susan,; Kligman, Gail,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.) :; 37 tables

The striking fact that abortion was among the first issues raised, after 1989, by almost all of the newly formed governments of East Central Europe points to the significance of gender and reproduction in the postsocialist transformations. The fourteen studies in this volume result from a comparative, collaborative research project on the complex relationship between ideas and practices of gender, and political economic change. The book presents detailed evidence about women's and men's new circumstances in eight of the former communist countries, exploring the intersection of politics and the life cycle, the differential effects of economic restructuring, and women's public and political participation. Individual contributions on the former German Democratic Republic, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Romania, and Bulgaria provide rich empirical data and interpretive insights on postsocialist transformation analyzed from a gendered perspective. Drawing on multiple methods and disciplines, these original papers advance scholarship in several fields, including anthropology, sociology, women's studies, law, comparative political science, and regional studies. The analyses make clear that practices of gender, and ideas about the differences between men and women, have been crucial in shaping the broad social changes that have followed the collapse of communism. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Eleonora Zieliãska, Eva Maleck-Lewy, Myra Marx Ferree, Sharon Wolchik, Irene Dölling, Daphne Hahn, Sylka Scholz, Mira Marody, Anna Giza-Poleszczuk, Katalin Kovács, Mónika Váradi, Julia Szalai, Adriana Baban, MaÏgorzata Fuszara, Laura Grunberg, Zorica Mrseviâ, Krassimira Daskalova, Joanna Goven, and Jasmina Lukiâ.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: REPRODUCTION AS POLITICS -- CHAPTER 1 Between Ideology, Politics, and Common Sense: The Discourse of Reproductive Rights in Poland -- CHAPTER 2 Reproductive Policies in the Czech and Slovak Republics -- CHAPTER 3 Talking about Women and Wombs: The Discourse of Abortion and Reproductive Rights in the G.D.R. during and after the Wende -- CHAPTER 4 Birth Strike in the New Federal States: Is Sterilization an Act of Resistance? -- PART TWO: GENDER RELATIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE -- CHAPTER 5 Changing Images of Identity in Poland: From the Self-Sacrificing to the Self-Investing Woman? -- CHAPTER 6 Women's Life Trajectories and Class Formation in Hungary -- CHAPTER 7 From Informal Labor to Paid Occupations: Marketization from below in Hungarian Women's Work -- CHAPTER 8 Women's Sexuality and Reproductive Behavior in Post-Ceausescu Romania: A Psychological Approach -- PART THREE: ARENAS OF POLITICAL ACTION: STRUGGLES FOR REPRESENTATION -- CHAPTER 9 New Gender Relations in Poland in the 1990s -- CHAPTER 10 New Parliament, Old Discourse? The Parental Leave Debate in Hungary -- CHAPTER 11 Women's NGOs in Romania -- CHAPTER 12 Women's Problems, Women's Discourses in Bulgaria -- CHAPTER 13 Belgrade's SOS Hotline for Women and Children Victims of Violence: A Report -- CHAPTER 14 Media Representations of Men and Women in Times of War and Crisis: The Case of Serbia -- CONCLUSION -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX