Living Gender after CommunismJanet Elise Johnson, Jean C. Robinson Indiana University Press, 2006 M12 12 - 280 pages How has the collapse of communism across Europe and Eurasia changed gender? In addition to acknowledging the huge costs that fell heavily on women, Living Gender after Communism suggests that moving away from communism in Europe and Eurasia has provided an opportunity for gender to multiply, from varieties of neo-traditionalism to feminisms, from overt negotiation of femininity to denials of gender. This development, Contributors are Anna Brzozowska, Karen Dawisha, Nanette Funk, Ewa Grigar, Azra Hromadzic, Janet Elise Johnson, Anne-Marie Kramer, Tania Rands Lyon, Jean C. Robinson, Iulia Shevchenko, Svitlana Taraban, and Shannon Woodcock. |
Contents
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I NEGOTIATING GENDER | 23 |
1 Housewife Fantasies Family Realities in the New Russia | 25 |
Crisis Centers Encountering Local Governments in Barnaul Russia | 40 |
II DENYING GENDER | 61 |
Opinion Polls Ideological Politics Citizenship and the Erasure of Gender as a Category of Analysis | 63 |
4 The Gendered Body as Raw Material for Women Artists of Central Eastern Europe after Communism | 80 |
III TRADITIONALIZING GENDER | 103 |
IV NEGOTIATING GENDER WITHIN NATIONALISMS | 147 |
Othered Ethnicities Gendering Spaces | 149 |
8 Challenging the Discourse of Bosnian War Rapes | 169 |
9 Deficient Belarus? Insidious Gender Binaries and Hyperfeminized Nationality | 185 |
Fifteen Years of the EastWest Womens Dialogue | 203 |
Works Cited | 227 |
List of Contributors | 251 |
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Internet Bride as the Emerging Global Identity of PostSoviet Women | 105 |
6 Does the Gender of MPs Matter in Postcommunist Politics? The Case of the Russian Duma 19952001 | 128 |
Back cover | 267 |