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Gendering Postsocialism

Author : Yulia Gradskova
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351585576
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Gendering Postsocialism written by Yulia Gradskova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Gender, Globalization, and Postsocialism

Author : Jacqui True
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231127141
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Globalization, and Postsocialism written by Jacqui True and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True examines political and gendered identities in flux in post-communist Czech Republic. She argues that the privatization of a formerly state economy and the adoption of consumer-oriented market practices were shaped by ideas and attitudes about gender roles. This book also offers a provocative general thesis about the inextricable linkages between political and economic changes and gender identities.

Ambiguous Transitions

Author : Jill Massino
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785335995
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Ambiguous Transitions written by Jill Massino and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on youth, family, work, and consumption, Ambiguous Transitions analyzes the interplay between gender and citizenship postwar Romania. By juxtaposing official sources with oral histories and socialist policies with everyday practices, Jill Massino illuminates the gendered dimensions of socialist modernization and its complex effects on women’s roles, relationships, and identities. Analyzing women as subjects and agents, the book examines how they negotiated the challenges that arose as Romanian society modernized, even as it clung to traditional ideas about gender. Massino concludes by exploring the ambiguities of postsocialism, highlighting how the legacies of the past have shaped politics and women’s lived experiences since 1989.

The Red Riviera

Author : Kristen Ghodsee
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822387174
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Red Riviera written by Kristen Ghodsee and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling ethnography of women working in Bulgaria’s popular sea and ski resorts challenges the idea that women have consistently fared worse than men in Eastern Europe’s transition from socialism to a market economy. For decades western European tourists have flocked to Bulgaria’s beautiful beaches and mountains; tourism is today one of the few successful—and expanding—sectors of the country’s economy. Even at the highest levels of management, employment in the tourism industry has long been dominated by women. Kristen Ghodsee explains why this is and how women working in the industry have successfully negotiated their way through Bulgaria’s capitalist transformation while the fortunes of most of the population have plummeted. She highlights how, prior to 1989, the communist planners sought to create full employment for all at the same time that they steered women into the service sector. The women given jobs in tourism obtained higher educations, foreign language skills, and experiences working with Westerners, all of which positioned them to take advantage of the institutional changes eventually brought about by privatization. Interspersed throughout The Red Riviera are vivid examinations of the lives of Bulgarian women, including a waitress, a tour operator, a chef, a maid, a receptionist, and a travel agent. Through these women’s stories, Ghodsee describes their employment prior to 1989 and after. She considers the postsocialist forces that have shaped the tourist industry over the past fifteen years: the emergence of a new democratic state, the small but increasing interest of foreign investors and transnational corporations, and the proliferation of ngos. Ghodsee suggests that many of the ngos, by insisting that Bulgarian women are necessarily disenfranchised, ignore their significant professional successes.

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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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.

Economies of Violence

Author : Jennifer Suchland
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822375281
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Economies of Violence written by Jennifer Suchland and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent human rights campaigns against sex trafficking have focused on individual victims, treating trafficking as a criminal aberration in an otherwise just economic order. In Economies of Violence Jennifer Suchland directly critiques these explanations and approaches, as they obscure the reality that trafficking is symptomatic of complex economic and social dynamics and the economies of violence that sustain them. Examining United Nations proceedings on women's rights issues, government and NGO anti-trafficking policies, and campaigns by feminist activists, Suchland contends that trafficking must be understood not solely as a criminal, gendered, and sexualized phenomenon, but as operating within global systems of precarious labor, neoliberalism, and the transition from socialist to capitalist economies in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc. In shifting the focus away from individual victims, and by underscoring trafficking's economic and social causes, Suchland provides a foundation for building more robust methods for combatting human trafficking.

Postsocialism

Author : C.M. Hann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134504462
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Postsocialism written by C.M. Hann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social scientist did not predict the collapse of the socialist system in 1989-91. Their attempts to explain postsocialism have not been comprehensive. This book examines why, for the first time from an anthropological standpoint.

Reproducing Gender

Author : Susan Gal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691048680
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Reproducing Gender written by Susan Gal and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-28 with total page 458 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.

Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues

Author : Redi Koobak
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000361527
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues written by Redi Koobak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through staging dialogues between scholars, activists, and artists from a variety of disciplinary, geographical, and historical specializations, Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues explores the possible resonances and dissonances between the postcolonial and the postsocialist in feminist theorizing and practice. While postcolonial and postsocialist perspectives have been explored in feminist studies, the two analytics tend to be viewed separately. This volume brings together attempts to understand if and how postcolonial and postsocialist dimensions of the human condition - historical, existential, political, and ideological - intersect and correlate in feminist experiences, identities, and struggles. In the three sections that probe the intersections, opacities, and challenges between the two discourses, the authors put under pressure what postcolonialism and postsocialism mean for feminist scholarship and activism. The contributions address the emergence of new political and cultural formations as well as circuits of bodies and capital in a post-Cold War and postcolonial era in currently re-emerging neo-colonial and imperial conflicts. They engage with issues of gender, sexuality, race, migration, diasporas, indigeneity, and disability, while also developing new analytical tools such as postsocialist precarity, queer postsocialist coloniality, uneventful feminism, feminist opacity, feminist queer crip epistemologies. The collection will be of interest for postcolonial and postsocialist researchers, students of gender studies, feminist activists and scholars.

Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

Author : F. Stella
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137321245
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia written by F. Stella and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the everyday lives of 'lesbian' women in urban Russia. It explores changes and continuities by examining generational differences, and attends to regional variation by considering what 'lesbian' life looks like in different locations, problematising essentialist accounts of Russian sexualities and western-centric theorizations.

Sex, Love, and Migration

Author : Alexia Bloch
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501712055
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Sex, Love, and Migration written by Alexia Bloch and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, Love, and Migration goes beyond a common narrative of women's exploitation as a feature of migration in the early twenty-first century, a story that features young women from poor countries who cross borders to work in low paid and often intimate labor. Alexia Bloch argues that the mobility of women is marked not only by risks but also by personal and social transformation as migration fundamentally reshapes women's emotional worlds and aspirations. Bloch documents how, as women have crossed borders between the former Soviet Union and Turkey since the early 1990s, they have forged new forms of intimacy in their households in Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, but also in Istanbul, where they often work for years on end. Sex, Love, and Migration takes as its subject the lives of post-Soviet migrant women employed in three distinct spheres—sex work, the garment trade, and domestic work. Bloch challenges us to decouple images of women on the move from simple assumptions about danger, victimization, and trafficking. She redirects our attention to the aspirations and lives of women who, despite myriad impediments, move between global capitalist centers and their home communities.

Post-Soviet Armenia

Author : Irina Ghaplanyan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315282674
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Post-Soviet Armenia written by Irina Ghaplanyan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenia has struggled to establish itself, with a faltering economy, emigration of the intelligentsia and the weakening of civil society. This book explores how a new national elite has emerged and how it has constructed a new national narrative to suit Armenia’s new circumstances. The book examines the importance of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan, considers the impact of fraught relations with Turkey and the impact of relations with other neighbouring states including Russia, and discusses the poorly-developed role of the very large Armenian diaspora. Overall, the book provides a key overview to understanding the forces shaping all aspects of present-day Armenia.

Making Their Place

Author : Katja Guenther
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804770727
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Making Their Place written by Katja Guenther and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a comparative analysis of feminist social movements in the aftermath of the collapse of state socialism, this book offers a unique opportunity to examine how shifting gender relations interact with local identities to create new understandings of gender, the state, and strategies for resistance.

Gender, Pleasure, and Violence

Author : Agnieszka Kościańska
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253053102
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Pleasure, and Violence written by Agnieszka Kościańska and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the Iron Curtain, the politics of sexuality and gender were, in many ways, more progressive than the West. While Polish citizens undoubtedly suffered under the oppressive totalitarianism of socialism, abortion was legal, clear laws protected victims of rape, and it was relatively easy to legally change one's gender. In Gender, Pleasure, and Violence, Agnieszka Kościańska reveals that sexologists—experts such as physicians, therapists, and educators—not only treated patients but also held sex education classes at school, published regular columns in the press, and authored highly popular sex manuals that sold millions of copies. Yet strict gender roles within the home meant that true equality was never fully within reach. Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and archival work, Kościańska shares how professions like sexologists defined the notions of sexual pleasure and sexual violence under these sweeping cultural changes. By tracing the study of sexual human behavior as it was developed and professionalized in Poland since the 1960s, Gender, Pleasure, and Violence explores how the collapse of socialism brought both restrictions in gender rights and new opportunities.

Unequal under Socialism

Author : Miglena S. Todorova
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487528434
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Unequal under Socialism written by Miglena S. Todorova and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unequal under Socialism examines the formation of racial, gender, and national identities and relations in the socialist state. With a specific focus on Bulgaria, a former socialist country in the Balkans, Miglena S. Todorova traces the intertwined local and global forces driving racialization, socialist state policies, and Eurocentric Marxist and Leninist ideologies, all of which led to valued and devalued categories of women. Roma women, Muslim women, ethnic Bulgarian women, sex workers, and female factory and office workers were among those marked by socialist authorities for prosperity, accommodation, violent reformation, or erasure. Covering the period from the 1930s to the present and drawing upon original archival sources as well as a constellation of critical theories, Unequal under Socialism focuses on the lives of different women to articulate deep doubt about the capacity of socialism to sustain societies where all women prosper. Such doubt, the book suggests, is an under-recognized but important force shaping how women in former socialist countries have related to one another and to other women in the global North and South.

Advertising, Sex, and Post-socialism

Author : Elza Ibroscheva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780739172667
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book Advertising, Sex, and Post-socialism written by Elza Ibroscheva and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book traces the evolution of gender ideologies in the Balkans, through emancipating women's roles during socialism and into the proliferation and normalization of hyper-sexualized images of women in advertising and other media in the post-socialist transition. Drawing on a media-centered cultural/critical approach to understanding the changing role of advertising in post-socialist societies and its influence on gender identities, the book offers a unique contribution to global media studies and the broader discipline of gender and communication.

Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities

Author : Richard C.M. Mole
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317224914
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities written by Richard C.M. Mole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite Soviet Russia having been one of the first major powers to decriminalise homosexual acts between men, attitudes towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in contemporary Russia and the other post-Soviet states have become increasingly hostile, with the introduction of laws restricting their rights and an increase in homophobic violence. This book explores how this situation has come about. It discusses how meanings attached to non-heteronormative sexualities have been constructed for specific socio-political purposes by elites in line with Marxist-Leninist or nationalist thought, explores how attitudes to non-normative sexualities developed historically and examines the current situation in the post-Soviet space, including Russia, Transcaucasia, Central Asia and the Baltic States. The book provides a wealth of detail on this understudied subject and assesses how LGBT subjects are responding to this state of affairs.