Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central

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.

ISBN	0230613004	Pages	304
ISBN13	9780230613003 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan	Weight (grammes)	439
Imprint	Palgrave Macmillan	Published in	Basingstoke
Format	Hardback	Height (mm)	216
Publication date	29 Jan 2010	Width (mm)	144
Library of Congress	2009014140	Spine width (mm)	21
DEWEY	320.5310820947	Academic level	Postgraduate
DEWEY edition	DC22

	List of Figures and Tables
Introduction	Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe by Jill Massino and Shana Penn	1
I	Work, Activism, and Identity	11
1	Workers under Construction: Gender, Identity, and Women's Experiences of Work in State Socialist Romania by Jill Massino	13
2	"My Work, My Family, and My Car": Women's Memories of Work, Consumerism, and Leisure in Socialist Hungary by Eszter Zsofia Toth	33
3	"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 by Basia A. Nowak	45
4	Translating Equality between Women and Men across Cold War Divides: Women Activists from Hungary and Romania and the Creation of International Women's Year by Raluca Maria Papa	59
II	Sex, Reproduction, Family Relations, and Domestic Space	75
5	"The Most Natural Function of Women": Ambiguous Party Policies and Female Experiences in Socialist Bulgaria by Ulf Brunnbauer	77
6	Sex, Divorce, and Women's Waged Work: Private Lives and State Policy in the Early German Democratic Republic by Donna Harsch	97
7	Wife Beating: Ideology and Practice under State Socialism in Hungary, Poland, and Romania by Isabel Marcus	115
8	How the Church Became the State: The Catholic Regime and Reproductive Rights in State Socialist Poland by Joanna Z. Mishtal	133
9	Designing for the Socialist Family: The Evolution of Housing Types in Early Postwar Czechoslovakia by Kimberly Elman Zarecor	151
III	Consumption, Leisure, and Culture	169
10	Are You a Modern Girl? Consumer Culture and Young Women in 1960s Poland by Malgorzata Fidelis	171
11	"When We Were Walking down the Road and Singing": Rural Women's Memories of Socialism in Serbia by Ana Hofman	185
IV	Gender and Resistance	199
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	Notes	221

"The commonly held view that women in Communist Eastern Europe uniformly suffered under the double or triple burden of paid work, household duties, and child care gets a more nuanced examination in this collection. Many essays are based on interviews with women who lived through those years and reveal their lives in all their complexity...overall the collection is rewarding for its insights and exposure of women's lived experiences."--"Publisher's Weekly"

"This book enriches our understanding of the legacies of state socialism and the ways in which gender in these societies even today continues to be shaped by the living practices of the past. This is a robust and broad-ranging set of studies that remind us not only of the failures of socialism but also alert us to the ways in which women's lives were changed and indeed empowered because of the opportunities and challenges of that era."--Jean C. Robinson, Professor of Political Science, Indiana University

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