The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism: An Expropriated Voice (Routledge Research in Gender and Politics)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2014

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781317819073

Related ISBNs:

9781315819174, 9780415720830, 9781138101470, 9780415720830, 9781138101470

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

02/07/20

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No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Politics and Government

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Hana Havelková

Edited by:

Libora Oates-Indruchová