1st Edition
Genre and the (Post-)Communist Woman Analyzing Transformations of the Central and Eastern European Female Ideal
Introduction. Florentina C. Andreescu and Michael J. Shapiro, 1. Women, Language, and Sacrifice/ Florentina C. Andreescu and Sean P. Quinn 2. Haunted Transitions: Memory, Theater, and Gender Discourse/ Oana Popescu-Sandu 3. Hungarian Masks/ Michael J. Shapiro 4. (An)Other Part of the Fall? Stories of Anonymous Women in (Post)communism/ Irina Velicu 5. Women as Anticommunist Dissidents and Secret Police Collaborators/ Lavinia Stan 6. Flirting with the West, Gender and Nation in Occident (2002) and California Dreamin’ (2007)/ Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy 7. Governance of Life and Femininity in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Reflections on Affective Politics and Cultural Production/ Jasmina Husanović 8. The Fantasy of Femininity among the Industrial Ruins of Communism: Teona Strugar Mitevska's I am from Titov Veles (2007)/ Barbara Mennel 9. Turbo-Sexuality or Turbo-Sexism: The Emerging Standards of Beauty in the Pop-Folk Music of the Balkans/ Elza Ibroscheva 10. The Gypsy Woman: Between Imaginary Figure and Reality/ Anca M. Pusca
Biography
Florentina C. Andreescu is a lecturer in International Studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
Michael J Shapiro is a professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i---Manoa.
