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1 online resource |
| Series |
Global Gender |
| Contents |
Gendered subject of postsocialism : state socialist legacies, global challenges and (re)building of tradition / Ildikó Asztalos Morell and Yulia Gradskova -- New gendered geographies -- Hierarchical sisterhood : an example of Swedish-Bosnian encounters for gender equality and peace 1993-2013 / Sanela Bajramovic Jusufbegovic -- Elder care in Russia and sidelka from Central Asia / Noriko Igarashi -- Around the corner? : female empowerment and security in Georgia / Li Bennich-Björkman -- Neoliberal governance and the gendered enterprising self -- Russian hostess in Japan : a way towards self-fulfillment? / Yulia Mikhailova -- Post-socialist gender failures : men in the economies of recognition / Arturas Tereskinas -- "A mom who has time for everything" : mothers between work and family in contemporary Ukraine / Olena Strelnyk -- Roma women ngos agency in marginalized rural municipalities in Hungary / Ildikó Asztalos Morell -- Resilient legacies of state socialism -- "Women have always had harder lives" : the gender roles and representations of the self in the oral recollections of older Czech women / Radmila Varícková Slabáková -- Home is the "place of women's strength" : gendering housing in soviet and post-soviet Russia / Yulia Gradskova -- Post-soviet legacies in girls' education in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan / Kuanysh Tastanbekova -- The new state between marketization, democratization and retraditionalisation -- "Gender restoration" and "masculinisation" of political life in Poland : the controversies over the abortion legislation after 1989 / Renata Ingbrant -- Obstacles for women in technical higher education in Hungary / Valéria Szekeres -- Gendered identities among medical professionals in post-socialist Russian cinema / Roman Abramov, Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Denis Saltykov -- Index -- List of abbreviations |
| Summary |
Gendering Postsocialism explores changes in gendered norms and expectations in Eastern Europe and Eurasia after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The dismantlement of state socialism in these regions triggered monumental shifts in their economic landscape, the involvement of their welfare states in social citizenship and, crucially, their established gender norms and relations, all contributing to the formation of the postsocialist citizen. Case studies examine a wide range of issues across 15 countries of the post-Soviet era. These include gender aspects of the developments in education in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Hungary, controversies around abortion legislation in Poland, migrant women and housing as a gendered problem in Russia, challenges facing women's NGOs in Bosnia, and identity formation of unemployed men in Lithuania. This close analysis reveals how different variations of neoliberal ideology, centred around the notion of the self-reliant and self-determining individual, have strongly influenced postsocialist gender identities, whilst simultaneously showing significant trends for a "retraditionalising" of gender norms and expectations. This volume suggests that despite integration with global political and free market systems, the postsocialist gendered subject combines strategies from the past with those from contemporary ideologies to navigate new multifaceted injustices around gender in Eastern Europe and Eurasia.-- Provided by Publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 23, 2018) |
| Subject |
Gender identity -- Former communist countries
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Women -- Former communist countries -- Social conditions
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Sexual minorities -- Former communist countries -- Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Gender identity
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Women -- Social conditions
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Former communist countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gradskova, I︠U︡lii︠a︡, editor.
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Asztalos Morell, Ildikó, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781351585583 |
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1351585584 |
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1138296066 |
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9781138296060 |
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9781351585576 |
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1351585576 |
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9781351585569 |
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1351585568 |
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9781315100258 |
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1315100258 |
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