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Genre and the (Post-)Communist Woman - Analyzing Transformations of the Central and Eastern European Female Ideal (Paperback)
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Genre and the (Post-)Communist Woman - Analyzing Transformations of the Central and Eastern European Female Ideal (Paperback)
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This work is a critical intervention into the archive of female
identity; it reflects on the ways in which the Central and Eastern
European female ideal was constructed, represented, and embodied in
communist societies and on its transformation resulting from the
political, economic, and social changes specific to the
post-communist social and political transitions. During the
communist period, the female ideal was constituted as a heroic
mother and worker, both a revolutionary and a state bureaucrat,
which were regarded as key elements in the processes of industrial
development and production. She was portrayed as physically strong
and with rugged rather than with feminized attributes. After the
post-communist regime collapsed, the female ideal's traits changed
and instead took on the feminine attributes that are familiar in
the West's consumer-oriented societies. Each chapter in the volume
explores different aspects of these changes and links those changes
to national security, nationalism, and relations with Western
societies, while focusing on a variety of genres of expression such
as films, music, plays, literature, press reports, television talk
shows, and ethnographic research. The topics explored in this
volume open a space for discussion and reflection about how radical
social change intimately affected the lives and identities of
women, and their positions in society, resulting in various policy
initiatives involving women's social and political roles. The book
will be of interest to students and scholars of gender studies,
comparative politics, Eastern European studies, and cultural
studies.
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