Janet Elise Johnson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Jean C. Robinson is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. She is co-editor of Women and Social Policy: From Local to Global, a special issue of NWSA Journal.
Contents
Foreword by Karen Dawisha
Acknowledgments
Living GenderJanet Elise Johnson and Jean C. Robinson
I. Negotiating Gender
1. Housewife Fantasies, Family Realities in the New RussiaTania Rands Lyon
2. Contesting Violence, Contesting Gender: Crisis Centers Encountering
Local Governments in Barnaul, RussiaJanet Elise Johnson
II. Denying Gender
3. The Abortion Debate in Poland: Opinion Polls, Ideological Politics,
Citizenship, and the Erasure of Gender as a Category of AnalysisAnne-Marie
Kramer
4. The Gendered Body as Raw Material for Women Artists of Central Eastern
Europe after CommunismEwa Grigar
III. Traditionalizing Gender
5. Birthday Girls, Russian Dolls, and Others: Internet Bride as the
Emerging Global Identity of Post-Soviet WomenSvitlana Taraban
6. Does the Gender of MPs Matter in Postcommunist Politics? The Case of the
Russian Duma, 1995-2001Iulia Shevchenko
IV. Negotiating Gender within Nationalisms
7. Romanian Women's Discourses of Sexual Violence: Othered Ethnicities,
Gendering SpacesShannon Woodcock
8. Challenging the Discourse of Bosnian War RapesAzra Hromadzic
9. Deficient Belarus? Insidious Gender Binaries and Hyper-feminized
NationalityAnna Brzozowska
Fifteen Years of the East-West Women's DialogueNanette Funk
Works Cited
List of Contributors
Index
