ISBN:
9780814712474
,
0814723411
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (v, 320 pages)
DDC:
305.3/0943
Schlagwort(e):
Post-communism
;
Post-communism
;
Women
;
Women
;
Feminism
;
Feminism
;
Sex role
;
Sex role
;
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Kurzfassung:
Bug inspectors and beauty queens : the problems of translating feminism into Russian -- Engendering the Russian body politic -- Women in Yugoslavia -- Traditions of patriotism, questions of gender : the case of Poland -- Sex, subjectivity, and socialism : feminist discourses in East Germany -- Deciphering the body of memory : writing by former East German women writers -- New members and organs : the politics of porn -- Sex in the media and the birth of the sex media in Russia -- The underground closet : political and sexual dissidence in East European culture -- Ivan Soloviev's reflections on Eros -- Russian women writing alcoholism : the sixties to the present -- Gendering cinema in postcommunist Hungary
Kurzfassung:
The postcommunist moment in the so-called Second World--Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union--has dramatically exposed the opportunities and dangers that arise when the political, cultural, and economic foundations of a society are de- and then re-structured. Gender roles and relations, expressions of sexuality or attempts to recontain them, representations of the body, especially the female body, and the larger, cultural meanings it assumes, are particularly marked sites to witness the performance of complex national dramas of crisis and change.This groundbreaking volume tur
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