Gendering Postsocialism

Old Legacies and New Hierarchies
Herausgeber: Gradskova, Yulia; Morell, Ildikó Asztalos

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Produktbeschreibung

Gendering Postsocialism explores changes in gendered norms and expectations in Eastern Europe and Eurasia after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9781138296060
• ISBN-10: 1138296066
• Artikelnr.: 52010664

Autorenporträt

Yulia Gradskova, Södertörn University, Sweden, is a historian dealing with post-Soviet history. She is the co-author of Gender Equality on a Grand Tour (2017 - with E.Blomberg, Y.Waldemarson, A.Zvinkliene) and the co-editor of And They Lived Happily Ever After (2012 - with H.Carlbäck and Zh.Kravchenko). Ildikó Asztalos Morell, sociologist from Mälardalen and Uppsala University (Sweden) with an interest in rural, gender and ethnicity studies of transition societies. She is the author of Emancipation's Dead-End Roads (1999) and co-editor of Gender Regimes, Citizen Participation and Rural Restructuring (2008 - with B.Bock).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 The gendered subject of postsocialism: state-socialist legacies,
global challenges and (re)building of tradition; Part 1 New gendered
geographies; Chapter 2 "They are hardly feminists and could learn a lot":
Swedish-Bosnian encounters for gender equality and peace, 1993-2013;
Chapter 3 Elderly care in Russia and sidelka from Central Asia; Chapter 4
Around the corner? Female empowerment, security, and elite mind-sets in
Georgia; Part 2 Neoliberal governance and the gendered enterprising self;
Chapter 5 Russian hostesses in Japan: a way towards self-fulfilment?;
Chapter 6 Postsocialist gender failures: men in the economies of
recognition; Chapter 7 "A mom who has time for everything": mothers between
work and family in contemporary Ukraine; Chapter 8 The agency of a Roma
women's NGO in marginalised rural municipalities in Hungary; Part 3
Resilient legacies of state socialism; Chapter 9 "Women have always had
harder lives": gender roles and representations of the self in the oral
recollections of older Czech women; Chapter 10 Home is the "place of
women's strength": gendering housing in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia;
Chapter 11 Post-Soviet legacies in girls' education in Kazakhstan and
Uzbekistan; Part 4 The postsocialist societies between marketisation,
democratisation and retraditionalisation; Chapter 12 "Gender restoration"
and "masculinisation" of political life in Poland: the controversies over
the abortion legislation after 1989; Chapter 13 Obstacles for women in
technical higher education in Hungary; Chapter 14 Gendered identities among
medical professionals in postsocialist Russian cinema; Index