Gender, Equality and Difference During And After State Socialism

by Kay, Rebecca

• ISBN13: 9780230524842
• ISBN10: 0230524842
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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 Biography

REBECCA KAY is Senior Lecturer in Russian Culture, Politics and Society at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is author of Men in Contemporary Russia: the Fallen Heroes of Post-Soviet Change?, Russian Women and their Organizations: Gender, Discrimination and Grassroots Women's Organizations 1991-96 and co-author of No More Heroines? Russian, Women and the Market.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. vii
Preface	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Notes on the Contributors	p. xi
Introduction: Gender, Equality and the State from 'Socialism' to 'Democracy'?	p. 1
Equal but Different: State Socialism and Women's Roles in Public and Private Life	p. 19
'We were very upset if we didn't look fashionable': Women's Beauty Practices in Post-war Russia	p. 21
How to Combine Motherhood and Wage Labour: Hungarian Expert Perspectives During the 1960s	p. 41
Reprivatising Women's Lives: from Khrushchev to Brezhnev	p. 63
Wives or Workers? Women's Position in the Labour Force and in Domestic Life in Sweden and Russia During the 1960s	p. 85
Heroine Mothers and Demographic Crises: the Legacy of the Late Soviet Era	p. 105
(Re-)Negotiating Gender, Equality and Difference in the Post-socialist Era: Rights, Participation and Marginalisation	p. 123
'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	p. 125
The Right to be Different? Sexual Citizenship and its Politics in Post-Soviet Russia	p. 146
Russian Women's Perceptions of Human Rights and Rights-based Approaches in Everyday Life	p. 167
Doubly Disadvantaged? Gender, Forced Migration and the Russian Labour Market	p. 187
Press Images of Human Trafficking from Russia: Myths and Interpretations	p. 211
Index	p. 230
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