Women, State, and Party in Eastern Europe

by Wolchik, Sharon L.; Meyer, Alfred G.

• ISBN13: 9780822306603
• ISBN10: 0822306603
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1986-02-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

These essays, by American, Canadian, and East European scholars, provide a comprehensive look at the status of women in Eastern Europe, with particular emphasis on the postwar situation.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Conditioning Factors

Feminism, Socialism, and Nationalism in Eastern Europe

The Precommunist Legacy, Economic Development, Social Transformation, and Women's Roles in Eastern Europe

Women in the Precommunist Period

Introduction

Medical Education for Women in Austria: A Study in the Politics of the Czech Women's Movement in the 1890s

Women in the First Czechoslovak Republic

Ukrainian Feminism in Interwar Poland

Peasant Women of Croatia in the Interwar Years

Women and Politics

Introduction

Women in Romanian Politics: Elena Ceausescu, Pronatalism, and the Promotion of Women

From Courtyard to Cabinet: The Political Emergence of Albanian Women

Women in Local Communist Politics in Romania and Poland

Women in the Opposition in Poland and Czechoslovakia

Women and Work: Production and Reproduction

Introduction

The Socioeconomic Conditions of Women in Hungary

Theory and Reality: The Status of Employed Women in Yugoslavia

Blue-Collar Working Women and Poverty in Hungary

The Rights of Women: Ideology, Policy, and Social Change in Yugoslavia

Social Services for Women and Childcare Facilities in Eastern Europe

Demographic Policy and Sexual Equality: Value Conflicts and Policy Appraisal in Hungary and Romania

Passage to Motherhood: Personal and Social "Management" of Reproduction in Czechoslovakia in the 1980s

Women's Voices

Introduction

Women, Work, and Gender Equality in Poland: Reality and Its Social Perception

The Rites of Women: Oral Poetry, Ideology, and the Socialization of Peasant Women in Contemporary Romania

The Emancipation of Women in Fact and Fiction: Changing Roles in GDR Society and Literature

Notes

Editors and Contributors

Index

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