Gradskova / Morell Gendering Postsocialism

Old Legacies and New Hierarchies
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-58557-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 266 Seiten

Reihe: Global Gender

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 post-socialist 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 post-socialist gender identities, whilst simultaneously showing significant trends for a "re-traditionalising" of gender norms and expectations.

This volume suggests that despite integration with global political and free market systems, the post-socialist gendered subject combines strategies from the past with those from contemporary ideologies to navigate new multifaceted injustices around gender in Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gradskova, Yulia

Morell, Ildikó Asztalos

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Gendered Subject of Postsocialism: State Socialist Legacies, Global Challenges and (Re)Building of Tradition Part I: New Gendered Geographies Chapter 2: Hierarchical Sisterhood: An Example of Swedish-Bosnian Encounters for Gender Equality and Peace 1993-2013 Chapter 3: Elder Care in Russia and Sidelka from Central Asia Chapter 4: Around the Corner? Female Empowerment and Security in Georgia Part II: Neoliberal Governance and the Gendered Enterprising Self Chapter 5: Russian Hostess in Japan: A Way Towards Self-Fulfillment? Chapter 6: Post-Socialist Gender Failures: Men in the Economies of Recognition Chapter 7: "A Mom Who Has Time For Everything": Mothers Between Work and Family in Contemporary Ukraine Chapter 8: Roma Women NGOs Agency in Marginalized Rural Municipalities in Hungary Part III: Resilient Legacies of State Socialism Chapter 9: "Women have always had Harder Lives": The Gender Roles and Representations of the Self in the Oral Recollections of Older Czech Women Chapter 10: Home is the "Place of Women’s Strength". Gendering Housing in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia Chapter 11: Post-Soviet Legacies in Girls’ Education in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Part IV: The New State between Marketization, Democratization and Retraditionalisation Chapter 12: "Gender Restoration" and "Masculinisation" of Political Life in Poland: The Controversies Over the Abortion Legislation After 1989 Chapter 13: Obstacles for Women in Technical Higher Education in Hungary Chapter 14: Gendered Identities Among Medical Professionals in Post-Socialist Russian Cinema

Über Autor(innen)

Yulia Gradskova, Södertörn University, Sweden is a historian dealing with post-Soviet history. She is the co-author of Gender Equality on a Grand Tour (2017 – with E.Blomberg, Y.Waldemarson, A.Zvinkliene) and the co-editor of And They Lived Happily Ever After (2012 – with H.Carlbäck and Zh.Kravchenko).

Ildikó Asztalos Morell, sociologist from Mälardalen and Uppsala University (Sweden) with interest in rural, gender and ethnicity studies of transition societies, is author of Emancipation’s Dead-End Roads (1999) and co-editor of Gender Regimes, Citizen Participation and Rural Restructuring (2008 - with B.Bock).