Introduction: Why Cinderella? -- 1. The 'Woman Question': The Legacy of State Socialism -- 2. New for Old? Ideology, the Family and the Nation -- 3. Self-determination under Threat: The State and Reproductive Rights -- 4. Right or Duty? Women and the Economy -- 5. Where Have All the Women Gone? Politics and Participation -- 6. An Allergy to Feminism: Women's Movements Before and After 1989 -- 7. Imagining Women: Literature and the Media -- 8. Can Cinderella Become a Citizen?