Gender, Equality and Difference During And After State Socialism

by R. Kay (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349357284
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2007
Series:	Studies in Central and Eastern Europe
Edition description:	1st ed. 2007
Pages:	237
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

ILDIKÓ ASZTALOS MORREL Lecturer in Sociology, Mälardalen University College, Sweden SUE BRIDGER Honorary Visiting Reader in Russian Studies, University of Bradford, UK MARY BUCKLEY Fellow and Director of Studies in Social and Political Sciences, Hughes Hall, Cambridge, UK HELENE CARLBÄCK Senior Lecturer in History, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University College, Skholm, Sweden YULIA GRADSKOVA Södertörn University College, Skholm, Sweden LARISA KOSYGINA PhD Student, CREES, University of Birmingham, UK FRANCESCA STELLA PhD Student, Department of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, UK VIKKI TURBINE Doctoral Researcher, Department of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, UK NATALIA VINOKUROVA Senior Researcher, Central Economics & Mathematics Institute (CEMI), Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Table of Contents

Introduction: Gender, Equality and the State from Socialism to Democracy?; R.Kay PART 1: EQUAL BUT DIFFERENT: STATE SOCIALISM AND WOMEN'S ROLES IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE 'We were very upset if we didn't look fashionable': Women's Beauty Practices in Post-War Russia; Y.Gradskova How to Combine Motherhood and Wage Labour: Hungarian Expert Perspectives during the 1960s; I.A.Morell Re-Privatising Women's Lives: From Khrushchev to Brezhnev; N.Vinokurova Wives or Workers? Women's Position in the Labour Force and in Domestic Life in Sweden and Russia during the 1960s; H.Carlbaeck Heroine-Mothers and Demographic Crises: The Legacy of the Late Soviet Era; S.Bridger PART 2: (RE-)NEGOTIATING GENDER, EQUALITY AND DIFFERENCE IN THE POSTSOCIALIST ERA: RIGHTS, PARTICIPATION AND MARGINALIZATION 'In our society it's as if the man is just some kind of stud': Men's Experiences of Fatherhood and Fathers' Rights in Contemporary Russia; R.Kay The Right to be Different? Sexual Citizenship and its Politics in Post-Soviet Russia; F.Stella Russian Women's Perceptions of Human Rights and Rights-Based Approaches in Everyday Life; V.Turbine Doubly Disadvantaged? Gender, Forced Migration and the Russian Labour Market; L.Kosygina Press Images of Human Trafficking from Russia: Myths and Interpretations; M.Buckley

Editorial Reviews

'This fascinating volume offers a voice to those who have not been heard or represented locally, ordinary people from various regions of Russia and other places, forming a valuable contribution to the widening on-going debate on discoures and understandings of gender and its contested nature.' - Katarzyna Kosmala, Europe-Asia Studies

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