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.
Focus is on gender history of everyday life. The seven articles in this volume deal with questions that engage with the lived, everyday aspects of femaleness and maleness, femininities and masculinities in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe from a multidisciplinary historical perspective. With forum: Six historians in search of Alltagsgeschichte.