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.
Bevat de volgende bijdragen: From duty to pleasure? Motherhood in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia / Olga Issoupova: Russia's female breadwinners: the changing subjective experience / Marina Kiblitskaya: Fathers and patriarchs in communist and post-communist Russia / Sergei Kukhterin: 'Once we were kings': male experiences of loss of status at work in post-communist Russia / Marina Kiblitskaya: New Russian men masculinity regained? / Elena Meshcherkina: The changing representation of gender roles in the Soviet and post-Soviet press / Irina Tartakovskaya: 'My body, my friend?' Provincial youth between the sexual and the gender revolutions / Elena Omel'Chenko.