Gender politics and everyday life in state socialist Eastern and Central Europe

"Did socialism liberate women? Twenty years after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, this collection of essays from European and North American scholars examines socialist policies and women's everyday lives to demonstrate that this question cannot be answered with an emphatic &#...

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Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
Format: TEXT
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke 2010
Palgrave Macmillan
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Online Access:https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19113597124919317799-Gender-politics-and-everyday-l.htm
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description "Did socialism liberate women? Twenty years after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, this collection of essays from European and North American scholars examines socialist policies and women's everyday lives to demonstrate that this question cannot be answered with an emphatic 'no,' but has multiple answers that require attending to many voices and stories. Focusing on a range of issues - such as worker identity, marital and family relations, consumer culture, leisure, sexuality, reproduction, activism, and resistance - Gender Politics and Everyday Life reveals that women experienced socialism in diverse, ambiguous, and in some cases empowering ways. These nuanced and multidisciplinary investigations provide new depth to the study of state policy, gender relations, and women's and men's lives, illustrating that there is no simple, coherent narrative of life under state socialism, but rather multiple, competing, and often contradictory ones."
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geographic Central Europe
Eastern Europe
socialist countries
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is_hierarchy_title Gender politics and everyday life in state socialist Eastern and Central Europe
language English
physical 292 p.
Paper
publishDate 2010
publisher Basingstoke
Palgrave Macmillan
spellingShingle gender
history
life style
social conditions
social status
womens empowerment
feminist movement
gender equality
Gender politics and everyday life in state socialist Eastern and Central Europe
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title Gender politics and everyday life in state socialist Eastern and Central Europe
topic gender
history
life style
social conditions
social status
womens empowerment
feminist movement
gender equality
url https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19113597124919317799-Gender-politics-and-everyday-l.htm