Women in the Face of Change
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...
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Examines how political and economic change in what used to be called the 'communist bloc' affects the millions of women who live in these societies.
List of tablesList of contributorsIntroduction1Pt. ISwings and roundabouts: the political economy of reform1Perestroika and the status of women in the Soviet Union112'Watering another man's garden': gender, employment and educational reforms in China203Gender and political participation in rural China414Uneven burdens: women in rural Poland57Pt. IIThe construction and reconstruction of gendered identities5Population policy and reform: The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China796Whose space is it anyway? Youth, gender and civil society in the Soviet Union1057Sexual revolution or 'sexploitation'? The pornography and erotica debate in the Soviet Union1308Monogamy and female sexuality in the People's Republic of China147Pt. IIITowards a woman's consciousness?9Gendered identities: women's experience of change in Hungary16710Feminism and Bolshevism: two worlds, two ideologies18611The women's movement in the USSR: a myth or a real challenge?200Name index218Subject index221
