This book looks at the impact of war on women in Britain. It shows how conflict has changed women’s lives and how those changes have put women at the centre of peace campaigning. Lindsey German shows how women have played a central role in anti-war and peace movements, including the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The women themselves talk about how they overcame prejudice and difficulty to become active. The book looks at how the changing nature of war, especially the involvement of civilians, increasingly involves significant numbers of women. As well as providing an inspiring account of women's opposition to war, the book also tackles key contemporary developments, challenging negative assumptions about Muslim women and showing how anti-war movements are feeding into a broader desire to change society.
The volume is a selection of analyses related to the issues of gender and social transition that appeared in the pages of the quarterly ‘East European Politics and Societies’. The articles look at what was happening to women in the changing East European societies and propose new perspectives on the history of the region. Articles cover many countries (e.g. Hungary, Romania, Czech, Serbia, Croatia, Ukraine, Poland) and come from a period of twelve years (1994-2006). Contents: József Böröcz and Katherine Verdery: Introduction – Katherine Verdery: From Parent-State to Family Patriarchs: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Eastern Europe – Susan Gal: Gender in the Post-Socialist Transition: The Abortion Debate in Hungary – Martha Lampland: Family Portraits: Gendered Images of the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hungary – Maria Bucur: In Praise of Wellborn Mothers: On the Development of Eugenicist Gender Roles in Interwar Romania – Melissa Feinberg: Gender and the Politics of Difference in the Czech Lands after Munich – Andrea Peto: A Missing Piece? How Hungarian Women in the Communist Nomenklatura are not Remembering – Marci Shore: Czysto Babski: A Women’s Friendship in a Man’s Revolution – Carol S. Lilly / Jill A. Irvine: Negotiating Interests: Women and Nationalism in Serbia and Croatia, 1990-1997 – Éva Fodor / Lilla Vicsek: A Different Type of Gender Gap: How Women and Men Experience Poverty – Alexandra Hrycak: Foundation Feminism and the Articulation of Hybrid Feminisms in Post-Socialist Ukraine – Jessica Greenberg: 'Goodbye Serbian Kennedy': Zoran Ðindic and the New Democratic Masculinity in Serbia – Leah Seppanen Anderson: EU Gender Regulations in the East: The Czech and Polish Accession Process.