Gender politics and everyday life in state socialist eastern and central Europe

This book showcases extensive research on gender under state socialism, examining the subject in terms of state policy and law; sexuality and reproduction;the academy; leisure; the private sphere; the work world; opposition activism; and memory and identity. INDICE: Introduction: Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State SocialistEastern and Central Europe - Jill Massino and Shana Penn * PART I: WORK, ACTIVISM, AND IDENTITY * Workers under Construction: Gender, Identity, and Women'sExperiences of Work in State Socialist Romania - Jill Massino * 'My Work, My Family, and My Car': Women's Memories of Work, Consumerism, and Leisure in Socialist Hungary - Eszter Zsófia Tóth * 'Where Do You Think I Learned How to Style My Own Hair?' Gender and Everyday Lives of Women Activists in Poland's League of Women - Basia Nowak * Translating Equality between Women and Men across Cold War Divides: Women Activists from Hungary and Romania and the Creation ofInternational Women's Year - Raluca Maria Popa * PART II: SEX, REPRODUCTION, FAMILY RELATIONS, AND DOMESTIC SPACE * 'The Most Natural Function of Women': Ambiguous Party Policies and Female Experiences in Socialist Bulgaria - Ulf Brunnbauer * Sex, Divorce, and Women's Waged Work: Private Lives and State Policyin the Early German Democratic Republic - Donna Harsch * Women's Status and Wife-beating: Ideology and Practice under State Socialism in Poland, Romania, and Hungary - Isabel Marcus * How the Church Became the State: The Catholic Regime and Reproductive Rights and Policies in State Socialist Poland - Joanna Z.Mishtal * Designing for the Socialist Family: The Evolution of Housing Types in Early Postwar Czechoslovakia - Kimberly Elman Zarecor * PART III: CONSUMPTION, LEISURE, AND CULTURE * 'Are You a Modern Girl?': Consumer Culture and Young Women in 1960s Poland - Malgorzata Fidelis * 'When We Were Walking Down the Road and Singing': Rural Women's Memories of Socialism in Serbia - Ana Hofman * PART IV: GENDER AND RESISTANCE * Writing Themselves into History: Two Feminists Recall Their Political Development in the People's Republic of Poland - Shana Penn -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61300-3
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 29/01/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés