Gender politics and everyday life in state socialist Eastern and Central Europe

Titel: Gender politics and everyday life in state socialist Eastern and Central Europe / edited by Shana Penn ...
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Ausgabe: 1. edition
Veröffentlicht: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Umfang: VIII, 292 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 0230613004 ; 9780230613003
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • p. ix
  • Acknowledgments
  • p. xi
  • Introduction: Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe
  • p. 1
  • I
  • Work, Activism, and Identity
  • p. 11
  • 1
  • Workers under Construction: Gender, Identity, and Women's Experiences of Work in State Socialist Romania
  • p. 13
  • 2
  • "My Work, My Family, and My Car": Women's Memories of Work, Consumerism, and Leisure in Socialist Hungary
  • p. 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
  • p. 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
  • p. 59
  • II
  • Sex, Reproduction, Family Relations, and Domestic Space
  • p. 75
  • 5
  • "The Most Natural Function of Women": Ambiguous Parry Policies and Female Experiences in Socialist Bulgaria
  • p. 77
  • 6
  • Sex, Divorce, and Women's Waged Work: Private Lives and State Policy in the Early German Democratic Republic
  • p. 97
  • 7
  • Wife Beating: Ideology and Practice under State Socialism in Hungary, Poland, and Romania
  • p. 115
  • 8
  • How the Church Became the State: The Catholic Regime and Reproductive Rights in State Socialist Poland
  • p. 133
  • 9
  • Designing for the Socialist Family: The Evolution of Housing Types in Early Postwar Czechoslovakia
  • p. 151
  • III
  • Consumption, Leisure, and Culture
  • p. 169
  • 10
  • Are You a Modern Girl? Consumer Culture and Young Women in 1960s Poland
  • p. 171
  • 11
  • "When We Were Walking down the Road and Singing": Rural Women's Memories of Socialism in Serbia
  • p. 185
  • IV
  • Gender and Resistance
  • p. 199
  • 12
  • Writing Themselves into History: Two Feminists Recall Their Political Development in the People's Republic of Poland
  • p. 201
  • Notes
  • p. 221
  • Notes on Contributors
  • p. 277
  • Index
  • p. 281