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. The volume explores the pivotal nature of the demise of the communist regimes, in relation both to experiences of gender and to their study in former state socialist societies. Each chapter is based on new and original research by the authors.
Author(s): Rebecca Kay
Edition: 1st
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 288
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 8
Preface by General Editor......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Notes on the Contributors......Page 12
Introduction: Gender, Equality and the State from ‘Socialism’ to ‘Democracy’?......Page 16
Part I: Equal but Different: State Socialism and Women’s Roles in Public and Private Life......Page 34
1 ‘We were very upset if we didn’t look fashionable’: Women’s Beauty Practices in Post-war Russia......Page 36
2 How to Combine Motherhood and Wage Labour: Hungarian Expert Perspectives During the 1960s......Page 56
3 Reprivatising Women’s Lives: from Khrushchev to Brezhnev......Page 78
4 Wives or Workers? Women’s Position in the Labour Force and in Domestic Life in Sweden and Russia During the 1960s......Page 100
5 Heroine Mothers and Demographic Crises: the Legacy of the Late Soviet Era......Page 120
Part II: (Re-)Negotiating Gender, Equality and Difference in the Post-socialist Era: Rights, Participation and Marginalisation......Page 138
6 ‘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......Page 140
7 The Right to be Different? Sexual Citizenship and its Politics in Post-Soviet Russia......Page 161
8 Russian Women’s Perceptions of Human Rights and Rights-based Approaches in Everyday Life......Page 182
9 Doubly Disadvantaged? Gender, Forced Migration and the Russian Labour Market......Page 202
10 Press Images of Human Trafficking from Russia: Myths and Interpretations......Page 226
C......Page 245
F......Page 246
H......Page 247
L......Page 248
N......Page 249
S......Page 250
U......Page 251
Z......Page 252
