Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the Ussr 1St Edition Pdf

FREE GENDER IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EASTERN EUROPE AND THE USSR 1ST EDITION PDF Catherine Baker | 9781137528025 | | | | | Gender in 20th century eastern Europe and the USSR To browse Academia. Skip to main content. Log In Sign Up. Download Free PDF. Catherine Baker. Copyrighted material — Introduction: Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the USSR 1st edition USSR Catherine Baker In a blog called Cosmarxpolitan, reimagining Cosmopolitan magazine covers with photographs and headlines evoking Communist ideology, briefly amused social media users. Yet what would the New Socialist Woman and the New Socialist Man actu- ally be, and how was the power to intervene in the structure of gender relations contested under state socialism? How successful were these interventions even in their own terms, and how far did they alter structures of inequality between genders that had existed before Communist parties came to power? This aim has inspired studies of gender and resistance while permitting historians to under- stand the gender relations of persecution, victimhood and even perpetration of mass violence and genocide. Gender histories of work strikingly illustrate the point that gender is a rela- tional concept — one that contains ideas about what it means to be a woman and ideas about what it means to be a man, and sets them against each other in a binary hierarchy. If narratives of national and ethnic identity determine who belongs to the nation, gender regimes intersect with these to determine how a person categorized as male or female is supposed to belong. For a genera- tion of international feminists, wartime sexualized violence in Croatia, Bosnia- Herzegovina and later Kosovo during the Yugoslav wars would come to stand as the extreme example of nationalism and patriarchy in action. Historians of any 20th-century place and moment can ask how nationalist movements and governments combined constructions of gender and ethnicity in their discourses of belonging, their practices of public mobilization, their differential treatment of ethno-national majorities and minorities especially Jews, Roma and Sintiand their political struggles over domains such as language and education. Governments before, during and after state socialism could all equate national strength with population growth and pursue pro-natalist policies such as state-provided childcare, paid benefits, contracep- tion and access to abortion; they might simultaneously seek to restrain birth rates of ethnic and religious minorities, especially Roma. State interventions in housing, leisure, consumer production and food supply all depended on gendered understandings of family and household. Scholars tackling these subjects agree there are risks in oversimplifying the past but differ deeply over how, where and why oversimplification has been taking place. Other volumes do the same for subsidiary regions such as Russia or south-east Europe,53 while the important recent collection edited by Joanna Regulska and Bonnie Smith, Women and Gender in Postwar Europe, drew both on eastern European and western European micro- histories in tracing a gender history of the Cold War that would encompass the whole continent, not one half. Lynne Haney, for instance, suggested that changing welfare policy in socialist Hungary revealed very different concepts of gender and need between toto and to — and her last period before another, more neoliberal welfare reform bridged late socialism and early post- socialism. This volume has approached its task accordingly. Yet it also aims to show how Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the USSR 1st edition and negotiations of gender have transcended the region and formed part Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the USSR 1st edition currents that also matter to gender historians elsewhere. Nor, this volume demonstrates, should such an account view the region as a space where the state of gender relations moved inexorably from patriarchal oppression towards equality over the course of the 20th century, or even just since the end of state socialism. Both the nexus between reproductive politics and nationalism and the question of historicizing the emergence of sexual identities are simultaneously key topics after — State socialism provides the focus for the next two sections of the volume. These were informed by, and had parallels with, the Soviet gender regimes seen earlier in the volume. The multiple forms of state socialism combined a rhetoric of gender equality that supposedly set them above the West with a Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the USSR 1st edition on scarcity and an intru- sion into — as Maria Bucur illustrates in a chapter contextualizing her own expe- riences in state socialist Romania and as a historian researching post-socialist gender relations — the most intimate spheres of everyday life that nevertheless created a recognizably distinct set of gender regimes within 20th-century gender history. It nevertheless helps explain what holds eastern Europe together as a region of analysis for gender historians. By the mids the temporalities of post- socialism seemed even more complex, with some gay, lesbian and queer people in the region first experiencing new freedoms then seeing them withdrawn; and with the memory or reinterpre- tation of gender relations under state socialism continuing to be a resource in contestations of gender politics more than two decades after the end of state socialist rule. While some chapters in this volume have broader geographical scope than others, all can be used to pose questions about chronology and temporality in modern gender history which are important for historians seeking to draw transnational conclusions. Or, indeed, on any other topic? And to what extent should the region s in this volume be studied through comparison with gender histories elsewhere? These matters are important to decide in the course of framing globally aware, yet locally rooted, gender histories. Indeed, precedents like these even open space for tracing east European involvement in the gendered projects of European colonialism — a history Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the USSR 1st edition hardly addressed. What could a greater understanding of the intimate politics of state socialism offer accounts of the transnational history of sexuality? How could a more comprehensive gender history of Europe at war in the 20th century incorporate the gendered forms of deprivation, degradation and trauma that characterized the wartime experience in the East? Notes 1. On digital memes of the young Stalin, see also Fraser, this volume. See, e. Wolchik and Alfred G. Nancy M. Scott, Gender, 41—4; R. On gender regimes and work, see, e. Gail W. Elizabeth C. Ramet ed. Lilly and Jill A. Kirschenbaum and Nancy M. Wingfield and Bucur edsGender and War. See also Melissa K. On efforts to reduce Roma birth rates, see, e. Wendy Z. Ashwin ed. See also Amy E. See also Bucur et al. Fidelis, Women, Communism, and Industrialization, 4. Funk and Mueller edsGender Politics. Penn and Massino edsGender Politics. Buckley ed. Joanna Regulska and Bonnie G. Haney, Inventing the Needy, 6— Silke Roth ed. Fodor, Working Difference. Stoler, Carnal Knowledge, emphasis original. Gal and Kligman, Politics of Gender, Fidelis et al. Stoler, Carnal Knowledge, Smith ed. Copyrighted material — Related Papers. By Ivan Simic. By Erin Biebuyck. Maria Bucur cv By Maria Bucur. Who Is a Victim of Communism? By Alina Haliliuc. Download pdf. Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Click here to sign up. Polish American Historical Association Edmond J. Important new findings on sex and gender in the former Soviet Bloc! Sexuality and Gender in Postcommunist Eastern Europe and Russia is a groundbreaking look at the new sexual reality in Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe after the fall of communism. 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