Gendering postsocialism : old legacies and new hierarchies / edited by Yulia Gradskova and Ildikó Asztalos Morell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Gradskova, I͡Ulii͡a, editor.

Asztalos Morell, IldikoÌ&#x0081, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity--Former communist countries.

Gender identity.

Women--Former communist countries--Social conditions.

Women.

Sexual minorities--Former communist countries--Social conditions.

Sexual minorities.

Social conditions.

Former communist countries.

LGBTQ+ people.

Physical Description:

xx, 246 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781138296060

1138296066

OCLC:

1009212227