Beschouwingen over de betekenis van gender voor veranderingen in voormalige Oostbloklanden vanaf 1989. De auteurs analyseren politieke veranderingen en definiëren politiek en politieke participatie breed: met inbegrip van macht, geweld tegen vrouwen, seksualiteit en relaties. Bevat: Slovene political parties and their influence on the electoral prospects of women / door Milica Antic Gaber: Women's groups: the Albanian case / door Delina Fico: Violence against women: international standards, Polish reality / door Urszula Nowakowska: Rethinking citizenship: analyses and activism in Central and Eastern Europe / door Chris Corrin: Re-imaging Bulgarian women: the Marxist legacy and women's self-identity / door Tatyana Kotzeva: New dimensions of the sexual universe: sexual discourses in Russian youth magazines / door Elena Omel'chenko.
This collection examines the effects of the social transformations taking place in Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe since the fall of communism. It addresses issues arising from these changes, including gender relations, gender roles and sex norms in transition, sexual representations in the media, patterns of adult sexual behavior, gay and lesbian issues, sex trafficking, health risks, and sexuality education.