Gendering Postsocialism - Old Legacies and New Hierarchies (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Global Gender
Release date:	March 2018
First published:	2018
Editors:	Yulia Gradskova • Ildiko Asztalos Morell
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	246
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-29606-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic systems > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > Economic geography
LSN:	1-138-29606-6
Barcode:	9781138296060

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