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Gender has traditionally proven to be a 'blind spot' for new institutionalists. This book bring gender to the fore as a critical aspect of institutions and opens up new avenues to interrogate the dynamics of power and change. Casting its empirical lens on the EU, where institutional efforts to realize gender equality are quite pronounced, the book interrogates attempts to bring about more 'gender just' polities - supranationally, nationally, and more locally. The book takes a 'best case' scenario - with explicit transformative aims to the social (gendered) order - in order to illuminate how institutions and their gendering, help and hinder institutional change. In doing so, it aims to: 1) consolidate and expand the theoretical 'toolkit' in terms of synergies between feminism and new institutionalism's various strands; and 2) bring it to bear on the trajectory of Europe's gender equality agenda towards better understanding the institutional and institutionalized challenges to redressing gender inequalities.
Gender has traditionally proven to be a 'blind spot' for new institutionalists. This book bring gender to the fore as a critical aspect of institutions and opens up new avenues to interrogate the dynamics of power and change. Casting its empirical lens on the EU, where institutional efforts to realize gender equality are quite pronounced, the book interrogates attempts to bring about more 'gender just' polities - supranationally, nationally, and more locally. The book takes a 'best case' scenario - with explicit transformative aims to the social (gendered) order - in order to illuminate how institutions and their gendering, help and hinder institutional change. In doing so, it aims to: 1) consolidate and expand the theoretical 'toolkit' in terms of synergies between feminism and new institutionalism's various strands; and 2) bring it to bear on the trajectory of Europe's gender equality agenda towards better understanding the institutional and institutionalized challenges to redressing gender inequalities.
Drawing on a rich trove of focus group data, interviews, and textual sources, Elaine Weiner's "Market Dreams" powerfully captures the varied responses of female managers and factory workers in the Czech Republic to their country's transition from socialism to capitalism. Her work, rooted in sociology and comparative feminism, is an important advance for the literature on women in Eastern Europe. ""Market Dreams" is a conceptually-sophisticated and
empirically-rich account of how the discourses and practices of the
free market penetrated the hearts and minds of everyday Czech
citizens. Weiner's provocative analysis takes readers inside the
worlds of female factory workers to expose the discontinuities
between their radiant market dreams and their everyday
realities--and juxtaposes them to the continuities experienced by
female managers. In the process, it challenges many of our ideas
about post/socialism, marketization, and gender and reveals the
enduring power of stories in shaping social identities and
actions." "Through interviews and a careful analysis of newspaper articles
written in the first decade after the collapse of state socialism,
Weiner explores the complicated interconnections between personal
stories and the emerging neoliberal metanarrative of the free
market in the Czech Republic after 1989. Her book transcends many
of the dichotomies with which researchers of post-state socialism
have been struggling: 'East' vs. 'West, ' losers and winners,
emancipation vs. oppression, etc., and thus makes a truly novel
contribution to our understanding of women's lives after state
socialism." "Weiner's rich and innovative study of female Czech managers and
workers exemplifies the importance of narrative analysis for
understanding why gender and class have not (yet) reconfigured the
sense of postcommunism's alternatives. This is critical reading for
feminists, class analysts, and students of postcommunist social
change." Elaine Weiner is Assistant Professor of Sociology at McGill University. Visit the author's website at: www.mcgill.ca/sociology/faculty/weiner/. Cover Credit: Frank Scherschel/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
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