The epidemic of mass rape in the former Yugoslavia has
illustrated once again, and in particularly brutal fashion, the
inextricable relationship between national politics, sexual
politics, and body politics. The nexus of these three forces is
highly charged in any culture, at any time in history, but
especially so among cultures in which rapid, even cataclysmic,
changes in material realities and national self-conceptions are
eroding or overwhelming previously secure boundaries.
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 turns its attention to the Second World,
specifically to such subjects as the birth of the sex media and
porn industry in Russia; Russian women and alcoholism; cinema in
post-communist Hungary; patriotism and gender in Poland; sexual
dissidence in Eastern Europe; and women in the former
Yugoslavia.
go to the Genders website ]
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