| Women in the Politics of Postcommunist Eastern Europe Revised and Exp Edition Contributor(s): Rueschemeyer, Marilyn (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0765602954 ISBN-13: 9780765602954 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 1998 Annotation: During the communist period in Eastern Europe, even women with small children typically worked outside the home, and their participation in formal political institutions was virtually mandatory. In the 1990s, with the introduction of market reforms, women have been disproportionately affected by employment downsizing and the dramatic erosion of social services. Nor have they fared well in electoral politics; and woman have been especially vulnerable wherever political competition has given way to violence. Beyond these generalizations, however, there is in the new political life of women in Eastern Europe a varied richness of experience that is ably reported and analyzed in this newly updated and expanded collection, which in its first edition was welcomed as "the vanguard of post-communist women's studies". The sixteen chapters provide comprehensive coverage of the region -- from Albania to Poland, from Germany to Russia, witch separate pieces on Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Political Science | World - General - Political Science | International Relations - General |
| Dewey: 320.082 |
| LCCN: 98015195 |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 5.9" W x 9.22" (1.32 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1990's - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: During the Communist period, in most of these contries, even women with small children typically worked outside the home, and their participation in formal institutions was virtually mandatory. Today, as they are being disproportionately affected by marketization, downsizing, the dramatic erosion of social services, and as their sons are being drafted to participate in an unending series of border wars, have women found a new political voice? |