Gendering Postsocialism

Old Legacies and New Hierarchies

Yulia Gradskova (Södertörn University, Stockholm.), Ildikó Asztalos Morell

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English

Routledge
07 January 2020

Gender studies, gender groups; Economic systems & structures; Economic geography

Series: 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 postsocialist 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 postsocialist gender identities, whilst simultaneously showing significant trends for a “retraditionalising” of gender norms and expectations.

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

Edited by: Yulia Gradskova (Södertörn University Stockholm.), Ildikó Asztalos Morell
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 381g
ISBN: 9780367890759
ISBN 10: 0367890755
Series: Global Gender
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 07 January 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 an interest in rural, gender and ethnicity studies of transition societies. She is the author of Emancipation’s Dead-End Roads (1999) and co-editor of Gender Regimes, Citizen Participation and Rural Restructuring (2008 – with B.Bock).