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The politics of gender after socialism : a comparative-historical essay

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 pro
Print Book, English, ©2000
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, ©2000
169 pages ; 24 cm
9780691048932, 9780691048949, 0691048932, 0691048940
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After socialism
Reproduction as politics
Dilemmas of public and private
Forms of states, forms of "family"
Arenas of political action
Gender and change