The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism - An Expropriated Voice (Paperback)

Though there has been much research on the incomplete emancipation project of state socialism in East and Central Europe, very little has been published on how the state and its institutions conceived of gender as a concept. This book seeks to understand if and how this conceptualization developed in the second half of the twentieth century, and what impact it had on everyday life and on culture. This study moves beyond the dichotomous gender perspectives and towards a nuanced understanding of the diverse discursive negotiations, agendas, actors and agency involved in state-socialist gender practices. Including a detailed case study on Czechoslovakia, contributors explore these issues in a series of independent, but collaboratively developed studies, placing their research in the context of other East Central European countries. The studies collected in the volume bring to light fresh material and consider it from the combined perspective of current gender theory and internal ideological dynamics of state socialism, breaking new ground in gender theory, cultural theory and studies of state socialism. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of gender studies, socialism, Cold-War politics and Eastern European politics and culture.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in Gender and Politics
Release date:	August 2015
First published:	2014
Editors:	Hana Havelkova • Libora Oates-Indruchova
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	268
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-10147-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies Promotions
LSN:	1-138-10147-8
Barcode:	9781138101470

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