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Gender Politics and Democracy in post-socialist Europe

Author : Yvonne Galligan
Publisher : Barbara Budrich
ISBN 13 : 3866491336
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (664 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender Politics and Democracy in post-socialist Europe by : Yvonne Galligan

Download or read book Gender Politics and Democracy in post-socialist Europe written by Yvonne Galligan and published by Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2008-02-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the politics of gender and democracy in post-communist Europe. Utilising the concept of political representation, the book scrutinises women’s legislative presence and highlights the opportunities and obstacles to parity democracy in this region of Europe. The book examines the link between women’s membership of national parliaments and the substantive representation of gender interests. It investigates the role of civil society, the state and the European Union in representing women’s interests and in promoting gender politics. The book provides an important and timely contribution to the classical political questions of who represents, what is represented, and how representation takes place. In adopting an integrated approach to political representation, the book extends current understanding of this fundamental concept. Using new research, it provides the first comprehensive comparative analysis of the interplay between emerging democracies and gender politics in post-communist Europe.

Gender Politics and Post-Communism

Author : Nanette Funk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429759002
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender Politics and Post-Communism by : Nanette Funk

Download or read book Gender Politics and Post-Communism written by Nanette Funk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of communism’s decline, women’s concerns had become increasingly important in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Yet most discussions of post-communism changes had neglected women’s experiences. Originally published in 1993, this title was the first collection of its kind, presenting original essays by women scholars, politicians, activists, and former dissidents from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, along with essays by Western feminists and scholars. They discuss gender politics during the often turbulent transition and crises of post-communism, offering vivid accounts and analyses of the conditions facing women in each country.

Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe

Author : S. Penn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230101577
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe by : S. Penn

Download or read book Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe written by S. Penn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Women's Access to Political Power in Post-Communist Europe

Author : Richard E. Matland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191529923
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Book Synopsis Women's Access to Political Power in Post-Communist Europe by : Richard E. Matland

Download or read book Women's Access to Political Power in Post-Communist Europe written by Richard E. Matland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers women's access to formal positions of powers in the newly formed democracies of post communist Europe. While acknowledging the relevance of recent history, this book takes an important step away from the communist legacy and explicitly argues for a framework based on causal variables identified in the existing literatures from industrialized democracies on women and politics and legislative recruitment After a brief introduction, the second chapter sets forth a general theoretical framework, which posits that the level of female legislative representation in a given country is a function of the relative supply of and demand for female candidates. After a chapter considering a broad overview of public opinion on women and politics in Eastern Europe, thirteen country chapters, spanning the spectrum of Eastern European democracies, address and test hypotheses about the key variables affecting the supply and demand sides of the equation in individual countries. Relevant aspects of the communist cultural and developmental legacy are addressed, but authors give particular attention to political factors, such as electoral rules and the characteristics of the emerging party systems, that vary within the Eastern European countries. The new democracies of Eastern Europe provide a novel context in which to test and extend our theories about the consequences of political institutions for the quality of democracy. Since institutional arrangements are more malleable than developmental or cultural characteristics, those variables also offer the greatest promise to scholars and practitioners wondering what can be done to improve women's access to formal arenas of political power? How can we build democracies that are stable, lasting and representative? A careful analysis of the post-communist context can help us to address issues concerning institutional design and development that has relevance well beyond the Eastern European context.

The Politics of Gender after Socialism

Author : Susan Gal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400843006
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis The Politics of Gender after Socialism by : Susan Gal

Download or read book The Politics of Gender after Socialism written by Susan Gal and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the collapse of communism, a new world seemed to open for the peoples of East Central Europe. The possibilities this world presented, and the costs it exacted, have been experienced differently by men and women. Susan Gal and Gail Kligman explore these differences through a probing analysis of the role of gender in reshaping politics and social relations since 1989. The authors raise two crucial questions: How are gender relations and ideas about gender shaping political and economic change in the region? And what forms of gender inequality are emerging as a result? The book provides a rich understanding of gender relations and their significance in social and institutional transformations. Gal and Kligman offer a systematic comparison of East Central European gender relations with those of western welfare states, and with the presocialist, bourgeois past. Throughout this essay, the authors attend to historical comparisons as well as cross regional interactions and contrasts. Their work contributes importantly to the study of postsocialism, and to the broader feminist literature that critically examines how states and political-economic processes are gendered, and how states and markets regulate gender relations.

Women in Eastern European Post-Socialist Countries

Author : Agnieszka Kasińska-Metryka
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040038751
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Women in Eastern European Post-Socialist Countries by : Agnieszka Kasińska-Metryka

Download or read book Women in Eastern European Post-Socialist Countries written by Agnieszka Kasińska-Metryka and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Eastern European Post-Socialist Countries: Social, Scientific, and Political Lives explores the role of women in Central and Eastern Europe in bringing about social change, and the obstacles they face in fighting for equality in various areas of life such as science, politics, and reproductive rights. Against a backdrop of increasing re-traditionalisation of post-socialist societies, and the reinvigoration of patriarchal attitudes, the book presents a timely and important collection. Through chapters authored by academics with different specialities across the social sciences, the book addresses the fundamental areas in which women's determination is already initiating changes, namely politics and diplomacy, science, reproductive rights, and customs resulting from religion. Women in Eastern European Post-Socialist Countries is of interest to scholars of gender studies, political and social sciences, and contemporary central and eastern European history.

Gender (In)equality and Gender Politics in Southeastern Europe

Author : C. Hassentab
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137449926
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender (In)equality and Gender Politics in Southeastern Europe by : C. Hassentab

Download or read book Gender (In)equality and Gender Politics in Southeastern Europe written by C. Hassentab and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of socialist regimes across Southeastern Europe changed the rules of the political game and led to the transformation of these societies. The status of women was immediately affected. The contributors to this volume contrast the status of women in the post-socialist societies of the region with their status under socialism.

Reproducing Gender

Author : Susan Gal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691228019
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Book Synopsis Reproducing Gender by : Susan Gal

Download or read book Reproducing Gender written by Susan Gal and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The striking fact that abortion was among the first issues raised, after 1989, by almost all of the newly formed governments of East Central Europe points to the significance of gender and reproduction in the postsocialist transformations. The fourteen studies in this volume result from a comparative, collaborative research project on the complex relationship between ideas and practices of gender, and political economic change. The book presents detailed evidence about women's and men's new circumstances in eight of the former communist countries, exploring the intersection of politics and the life cycle, the differential effects of economic restructuring, and women's public and political participation. Individual contributions on the former German Democratic Republic, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Romania, and Bulgaria provide rich empirical data and interpretive insights on postsocialist transformation analyzed from a gendered perspective. Drawing on multiple methods and disciplines, these original papers advance scholarship in several fields, including anthropology, sociology, women's studies, law, comparative political science, and regional studies. The analyses make clear that practices of gender, and ideas about the differences between men and women, have been crucial in shaping the broad social changes that have followed the collapse of communism. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Eleonora Zieliãska, Eva Maleck-Lewy, Myra Marx Ferree, Sharon Wolchik, Irene Dölling, Daphne Hahn, Sylka Scholz, Mira Marody, Anna Giza-Poleszczuk, Katalin Kovács, Mónika Váradi, Julia Szalai, Adriana Baban, MaÏgorzata Fuszara, Laura Grunberg, Zorica Mrseviâ, Krassimira Daskalova, Joanna Goven, and Jasmina Lukiâ.

Gender, Institutions and Political Representation

Author : Cristina Chiva
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137011777
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Institutions and Political Representation written by Cristina Chiva and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the struggles over the institutions of political representation in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the factors that have held women back over the post-communist period, as well as on the growing evidence for change throughout the region. Post-communist Europe has long raised two puzzles for scholars of women’s representation in politics. First, why have women been under-represented in politics in every country in the region since communism’s collapse? Secondly, why are there relatively few cases where women’s advocates have been successful in pressing for change? This comparative study of Europe’s new democracies argues that these puzzles are best understood as questions about male dominance – that is, about the mechanisms that sustain, or, alternatively, change long-established patterns of male over-representation in politics over time. The author covers six EU member states – Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia – during the period 1990-2016. The book will be of use to students and scholars in the fields of Comparative Politics, Democracy and Democratization, European Studies, Gender Studies, Post-Communist Studies, and Central and Eastern European Studies.

Gender in Transition in Eastern and Central Europe Proceedings

Author : Gabriele Jähnert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender in Transition in Eastern and Central Europe Proceedings written by Gabriele Jähnert and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Engendering Transformation

Author : Heike Kahlert
Publisher : Barbara Budrich
ISBN 13 : 9783866494220
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (942 download)

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Download or read book Engendering Transformation written by Heike Kahlert and published by Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2011 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender relations in post-socialist countries Even more than 20 years after turning away from socialism, Eastern European and Central Asian states are still characterized by the regime change in the fields of work, politics, and culture. What are the effects and implications that this change has produced for gender relations in post-socialist countries? And what does this mean for the situation of women and men living there today? In this context gender relations are especially interesting since gender equality was perceived as a political goal and, moreover, a given reality in socialism. The articles in this volume show the changes as well as the stability of gender relations and power structures during the transformation process and in post-socialist times. They shed light on topics like labour market policies, fertility, political representation of women or male artists concerned with gender issues covering the geographical space from Hungary and Poland over Bulgaria and Romania to Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Beyond that, some of the descriptions and analyses challenge understood certainties about how to create gender equality and about the women and men living in post-soviet regions today.

Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe

Author : Joanna Regulska
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351872389
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Book Synopsis Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe by : Joanna Regulska

Download or read book Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe written by Joanna Regulska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformations seen in women's active citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe mirror the social political and economic transformations in the region since the fall of communism at the end of the 1980s. This book challenges the universal notion of 'citizenship' by focusing on the diversity of situations women in this region have found themselves in since the end of the 1980s, looking at the challenges and struggles they have faced to assert themselves as citizens and their citizenship rights. Featuring detailed case studies which demonstrate the social and political discrimination between women that still exists, the book will be of interest to academics and post-graduate students in women's/gender studies, political sociology and European studies.

Gender, Equality and Difference During And After State Socialism

Author : R. Kay
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230590764
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender, Equality and Difference During And After State Socialism by : R. Kay

Download or read book Gender, Equality and Difference During And After State Socialism written by R. Kay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender, Equality and Difference During and After State Socialism examines gender as a socially and culturally constructed phenomenon which is influential in and influenced by state-led policies and structures, as well as social practices and relations and which shapes the experiences and lives of women and men.

Sharing Power

Author : Manon Tremblay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351900463
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Sharing Power written by Manon Tremblay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The representation of women in parliament is a subject of extensive research and a focus for political action in the last decade. The wide variation in women's parliamentary presence contradicts the expectation that established or consolidated democracies are more supportive of the presence of women in political life than emerging democracies. This volume explains this variation through a series of closely investigated case studies from the post-Communist transition democracies of Eastern Europe and emerging democracies in Asia and the Middle East to the long-established liberal democratic states. The volume examines the history of women's legislative involvement, clearly addressing the issue of equal opportunities for women in political life on a cross-national basis. It also identifies innovative solutions to redress the power-sharing balance between women and men. Offering a unique comparative perspective, Sharing Power will appeal to students and scholars of politics, women's studies, history and legislative studies.

Crises and Conflicts in Post-Socialist Societies

Author : Heiko Pleines
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 383825855X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Crises and Conflicts in Post-Socialist Societies written by Heiko Pleines and published by ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-socialist transformations in Central and Eastern Europe have been characterised by historically shaped crises and conflicts on all levels of political, economic and societal life. Minority and ethno-political conflicts, many of them currently at a stalemate, have severely hampered state-building and societal stability – and continue to do so. Contradictory interpretations of history prevent societies from forging a common identity and thus impede nation-building processes. Political and social identities exert an important influence on democratic and socioeconomic transformation processes. Taken together, the contributions in this volume reflect the wide variety of challenges and conflicts linked to ethnic, national, political, social and gender identities in post-socialist societies in Central and Eastern Europe. They not only serve to illustrate the significant differences among post-socialist transformations, but also highlight the variety of theoretical concepts and methodological approaches that can be used to analyse identity, its change and impact on societal developments.This book presents some of the best papers presented at the Changing Europe Summer School on “Crises and Conflicts in Eastern European States and Societies: Stumbling Blocks or Stepping Stones for Democratisation?“ held in Warsaw in September 2007.

Gender and Power in Eastern Europe

Author : Katharina Bluhm
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030531309
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Power in Eastern Europe written by Katharina Bluhm and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the contradictory development of gender roles in Central and Eastern Europe including Russia. In light of the social changes that followed the collapse of communism and the rise of new conservatism in Eastern Europe, it studies new forms of gender relationships and reassesses the status quo of female empowerment. Moreover, leading scholars in gender studies discuss how right-wing populism and conservative movements have affected sociopolitical discourses and concepts related to gender roles, rights, and attitudes, and how Western feminism in the 1990s may have contributed to this conservative turn. Mainly focusing on power constellations and gender, the book is divided into four parts: the first explores the history of and recent trends in feminist movements in Eastern Europe, while the second highlights the dynamics and conflicts that gained momentum after neoconservative parties gained political power in post-socialist countries. In turn, the third part discusses new empowerment strategies and changes in gender relationships. The final part illustrates the identities, roles, and concepts of masculinity created in the sociocultural and political context of Eastern Europe.

Movements, Migrants, Marginalisation

Author : Heiko Pleines
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 3838257332
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Movements, Migrants, Marginalisation written by Heiko Pleines and published by ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of socialism posed a historical challenge to European societies. The former socialist Central and East European countries were faced with what has been called a "triple transformation": Mutually dependent changes in the political, economic, and social spheres. At the same time, the old EU member states had to develop strategies to react to these developments and integrate former socialist societies.This post-socialist transformation of Europe coincided with a number of broader trends in the political, economic, and social spheres which are often collectively referred to as globalisation. Success or failure to adapt to these changes creates winners and losers. The focus of this edited volume is on various groups of "losers" and the challenges they face as a result of their marginalisation.This book presents the results of the Changing Europe Summer School on "Justice as a societal and political matter. Equality, social and legal security as conditions for democracy and the market" that took place in Berlin in July 2006. The Summer School brought together more than 30 young scholars from all over the world who work on issues related to Central and Eastern European societies and the enlarged EU.