Keywords:
Feminism - Former Soviet republics
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
The postcommunist moment in the so-called Second World--Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union--has dramatically exposed the opportunities and dangers that arise when the political, cultural, and economic foundations of a society are de- and then re-structured. Gender roles and relations, expressions of sexuality or attempts to recontain them, representations of the body, especially the female body, and the larger, cultural meanings it assumes, are particularly marked sites to witness the performance of complex national dramas of crisis and change.This groundbreaking volume tur
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
Online-Ressource (328 p)
ISBN:
9780814712481
Series Statement:
Genders Series v.4
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=2120044
DDC:
320
Language:
English
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; PART ONE Gendering the Postcommunist Landscape; ONE Bug Inspectors and Beauty Queens: The Problems of Translating Feminism into Russian; TWO Engendering the Russian Body Politic; THREE Women in Yugoslavia; FOUR Traditions of Patriotism, Questions of Gender: The Case of Poland; FIVE Sex, Subjectivity, and Socialism: Feminist Discourses in East Germany; SIX Deciphering the Body of Memory: Writing by Former East German Women Writers; SEVEN New Members and Organs: The Politics of Porn; PART TWO Reforming Culture
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EIGHT Sex in the Media and the Birth of the Sex Media in RussiaNINE The Underground Closet: Political and Sexual Dissidence in East European Culture; TEN Ivan Soloviev's Reflections on Eros; ELEVEN Russian Women Writing Alcoholism: The Sixties to the Present; TWELVE Gendering Cinema in Postcommunist Hungary; Contributors; Guidelines for Prospective Contributors
