1st Edition
Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights East Central Europe, Second Half of the Twentieth Century
Edited By Adela Hincu, Zsofia Lorand, Katarzyna Stanczak-Wislicz, Jovana Mihajlovic Trbovc
Copyright 2024
1081 Pages
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Central European University Press
A compendium of one hundred sources, preceded by a short author’s bio and an introduction, this volume offers an English language selection of the most representative texts on feminism and women’s rights from East Central Europe between the end of the Second World War and the early 1990s. While communist era is the primary focus, the interwar years and the post-1989 transition period... Read more
Introduction, 1. The legacy of the pre-1945 period, 2. Women and war, 3. Ideologies of women's emancipation, 4. The International Aspects of Women’s Rights, 5 Politicizing Motherhood (and Fatherhood), 6 Time Budgets and Double Burden, 7 Violence against Women and Gender-Based Violence, 8 Women in Politics, 9 Reproductive Rights and Demography, 10 Health and the Body, 11 Sexuality, 12 Debating “Western” Feminisms, 13 Dissidence, 14 Transitions, Contributors, Index
Biography
Adela Hincu (Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana) researches the history of social sciences, Marxist social thought, and women’s intellectual history in Romania and East Central Europe after the Second World War.
Zsofia Lorand is an intellectual historian of feminism in post-WWII state-socialist Eastern Europe.
Katarzyna Stanczak-Wislicz is a social historian working in the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Jovana Mihajlovic Trbovc is a political scientist dealing with political issues from the perspective of culture studies.
