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Thinking About Women in Postsocialist East Central Europe

Thinking About Women in Postsocialist East Central Europe THINKING ABOUT WOMEN IN POSTSOCIALIST EAST CENTRAL EUROPE Reproducing Gender. Politics, Publics, and Everyday Life after Socialism, ed. Susan Gal and Gail Kligman Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, 443 pages Susan Gal and Gail Kligman: The Politics of Gender after Socialism. A Comparative-Historical Essay, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, 169 pages The two authors-editors are North American social scientists with considerable fieldwork experience in East Central Europe. They present here the results of a collaborative research project on the role of gender in the social transformation processes of the region after 1989. The results are twofold. First, a. theoretical and methodological study that summarizes the assumptions, hypotheses, and theoretical and practical implications of the reported research and, secondly, a volume of essays on various gender-related aspects of the events and changes in the former GDR (2), Poland (3), the former Czechoslovakia (1), Hungary (3), Serbia (2), Romania (2), and Bulgaria (1). These latter proportions quite clearly reflect not so much the comprehensiveness or depth of social change in the countries concerned but rather the state of their social science research, more precisely, the degree to which the social scientists of the concerned countries have successfully joined international scholarly http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png East Central Europe Brill

Thinking About Women in Postsocialist East Central Europe

East Central Europe , Volume 28 (2): 131 – Jan 1, 2001

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Brill
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© 2001 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0094-3037
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1876-3308
DOI
10.1163/187633001X00100
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THINKING ABOUT WOMEN IN POSTSOCIALIST EAST CENTRAL EUROPE Reproducing Gender. Politics, Publics, and Everyday Life after Socialism, ed. Susan Gal and Gail Kligman Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, 443 pages Susan Gal and Gail Kligman: The Politics of Gender after Socialism. A Comparative-Historical Essay, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, 169 pages The two authors-editors are North American social scientists with considerable fieldwork experience in East Central Europe. They present here the results of a collaborative research project on the role of gender in the social transformation processes of the region after 1989. The results are twofold. First, a. theoretical and methodological study that summarizes the assumptions, hypotheses, and theoretical and practical implications of the reported research and, secondly, a volume of essays on various gender-related aspects of the events and changes in the former GDR (2), Poland (3), the former Czechoslovakia (1), Hungary (3), Serbia (2), Romania (2), and Bulgaria (1). These latter proportions quite clearly reflect not so much the comprehensiveness or depth of social change in the countries concerned but rather the state of their social science research, more precisely, the degree to which the social scientists of the concerned countries have successfully joined international scholarly

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