Women and Political Change

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Sue Bridger

   Pages 1-6

3. Gender and Heroes

   • Karen Petrone

   Pages 7-26

4. 1945: Change or Continuity in European Gender Relations?

   • Ida Blom

   Pages 27-42

5. How Long Did ‘Women’s Finest Hour’ Last?

   • Gunilla-Friederike Budde

   Pages 43-59

6. Were These the Same Women?

   • Sirje Kivimäe

   Pages 60-74

7. Enterprise and Survival

   • Sue Bridger

   Pages 75-90

8. The Effects of the Economic and Political Transition on Women and Families in Poland

   • Jill M. Bystydzienski

   Pages 91-109

9. Structural Changes and the Position of Women in St. Petersburg

   • Teela Jyrkinen-Pakkasvirta, Evgenia Poretzkina

   Pages 110-134

10. Neo-Conservatism in Family Ideology in Lithuania

    • Alina Zvinkliene

    Pages 135-150

11. From Faction Not to Party

    • Mary Buckley

    Pages 151-167

12. Emancipation Without Feminism

    • Larissa Lissyutkina

    Pages 168-187

13. Back Matter

    Pages 189-194

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This collection of essays looks at the impact on women of the political changes which have taken place in East-Central Europe since the 1930s. It is unusual in combining a strong contemporary focus with re-evaluations of what the socialist experience has meant for women. It brings together specialists from both East and the West to offer insights into women's lives and responses to change in countries which have a shared legacy of state socialism yet are as culturally diverse as Russia and Germany, Poland and Estonia.

• feminism
• gender
• socialism
• women
• russian and post-soviet politics

• Department of Modern Languages, University of Bradford, UK

  Sue Bridger

IDA BLOM Professor, Department of History, University of Bergen, Norway MARY BUCKLEY Reader in Politics, University of Edinburgh GUNILLA-FRIEDERIKE BUDDE Research Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin JILL M.BYSTYDZIENSKI Professor of Sociology, Franklin College, Indiana TEELA JYRKINEN-PAKKASVIRTA researcher, Department of Social Policy, University of Helsinki SIRJE KIVIMÄE Research Fellow with the Estonian Science Foundation working on the history of women in Estonia. She is Chair of the Society for Baltic-German Culture in Estonia LARISSA LISSYUTKINA previously researcher at what is now the Institute of Comparative Political Science of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow KAREN PETRONE Assistant Professor of History, University of Kentucky EVGENIA PORETZKINA Senior Researcher, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg ALINA ZVINKLIENE Senior Researcher, Lithuanian Institute of Philosophy and Sociology.

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