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Women in the face of change : the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China / edited by Shirin Rai, Hilary Pilkington, and Annie Phizacklea.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1992Description: x, 227 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415075408
  • 9780415075404
  • 0415075416
  • 9780415075411
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42
LOC classification:
  • HQ1870.8 .W66 1992
Contents:
List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Pt. I. Swings and roundabouts: the political economy of reform -- 1. Perestroika and the status of women in the Soviet Union -- 2. 'Watering another man's garden': gender, employment and educational reforms in China -- 3. Gender and political participation in rural China -- 4. Uneven burdens: women in rural Poland -- Pt. II. The construction and reconstruction of gendered identities -- 5. Population policy and reform: The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China -- 6. Whose space is it anyway? Youth, gender and civil society in the Soviet Union -- 7. Sexual revolution or 'sexploitation'? The pornography and erotica debate in the Soviet Union -- 8. Monogamy and female sexuality in the People's Republic of China -- Pt. III. Towards a woman's consciousness? -- 9. Gendered identities: women's experience of change in Hungary -- 10. Feminism and Bolshevism: two worlds, two ideologies -- 11. The women's movement in the USSR: a myth or a real challenge? -- Name index -- Subject index.
Summary: "The years 1989 and 1990 will probably be best remembered for the speed and breadth of political and economic change which swept through the former Communist Bloc. With the disintegration of this bloc, Western advice has focused on how to "democratize" economy and policy in these societies. Women in the Face of Change is one of the first efforts to examine the implications of this change for the millions of women who have toiled for decades alongside men in the factories and fields while managing the needs of the home. This collection, which draws from women in both Eastern and Western Europe, and China, poses many questions about the impact of change. It contributes to the debate that seeks to combat inertia and ethnocentrism within western feminism and also to the separate and critical "women's voice" which is re-emerging in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Pt. I. Swings and roundabouts: the political economy of reform -- 1. Perestroika and the status of women in the Soviet Union -- 2. 'Watering another man's garden': gender, employment and educational reforms in China -- 3. Gender and political participation in rural China -- 4. Uneven burdens: women in rural Poland -- Pt. II. The construction and reconstruction of gendered identities -- 5. Population policy and reform: The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China -- 6. Whose space is it anyway? Youth, gender and civil society in the Soviet Union -- 7. Sexual revolution or 'sexploitation'? The pornography and erotica debate in the Soviet Union -- 8. Monogamy and female sexuality in the People's Republic of China -- Pt. III. Towards a woman's consciousness? -- 9. Gendered identities: women's experience of change in Hungary -- 10. Feminism and Bolshevism: two worlds, two ideologies -- 11. The women's movement in the USSR: a myth or a real challenge? -- Name index -- Subject index.

"The years 1989 and 1990 will probably be best remembered for the speed and breadth of political and economic change which swept through the former Communist Bloc. With the disintegration of this bloc, Western advice has focused on how to "democratize" economy and policy in these societies. Women in the Face of Change is one of the first efforts to examine the implications of this change for the millions of women who have toiled for decades alongside men in the factories and fields while managing the needs of the home. This collection, which draws from women in both Eastern and Western Europe, and China, poses many questions about the impact of change. It contributes to the debate that seeks to combat inertia and ethnocentrism within western feminism and also to the separate and critical "women's voice" which is re-emerging in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China."--Publisher description.

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