Gender, Equality and Difference During And After State Socialism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Gender, Equality and the State from ‘Socialism’ to ‘Democracy’?

   1. Introduction: Gender, Equality and the State from ‘Socialism’ to ‘Democracy’?

      • Rebecca Kay

      Pages 1-18

3. Equal but Different: State Socialism and Women’s Roles in Public and Private Life

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. ‘We were very upset if we didn’t look fashionable’: Women’s Beauty Practices in Post-war Russia

      • Yulia Gradskova

      Pages 21-40

   3. How to Combine Motherhood and Wage Labour: Hungarian Expert Perspectives During the 1960s

      • Ildikó Asztalos Morell

      Pages 41-62

   4. Reprivatising Women’s Lives: from Khrushchev to Brezhnev

      • Natalia Vinokurova

      Pages 63-84

   5. Wives or Workers? Women’s Position in the Labour Force and in Domestic Life in Sweden and Russia During the 1960s

      • Helene Carlbäck

      Pages 85-104

   6. Heroine Mothers and Demographic Crises: the Legacy of the Late Soviet Era

      • Sue Bridger

      Pages 105-122

4. (Re-)Negotiating Gender, Equality and Difference in the Post-socialist Era: Rights, Participation and Marginalisation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. ‘In our society it’s as if the man is just some kind of stud’: Men’s Experiences of Fatherhood and Fathers’ Rights in Contemporary Russia

      • Rebecca Kay

      Pages 125-145

   3. The Right to be Different? Sexual Citizenship and its Politics in Post-Soviet Russia

      • Francesca Stella

      Pages 146-166

   4. Russian Women’s Perceptions of Human Rights and Rights-based Approaches in Everyday Life

      • Vikki Turbine

      Pages 167-186

   5. Doubly Disadvantaged? Gender, Forced Migration and the Russian Labour Market

      • Larisa Kosygina

      Pages 187-210

   6. Press Images of Human Trafficking from Russia: Myths and Interpretations

      • Mary Buckley

      Pages 211-229

5. Back Matter

   Pages 230-237

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Gender, Equality and Difference During and After State Socialism examines gender as a socially and culturally constructed phenomenon which is influential in and influenced by state-led policies and structures, as well as social practices and relations and which shapes the experiences and lives of women and men.

• democracy
• gender
• human rights
• labor market
• migration
• participation
• politics
• socialism
• women
• european union politics
• russian and post-soviet politics

'This fascinating volume offers a voice to those who have not been heard or represented locally, ordinary people from various regions of Russia and other places, forming a valuable contribution to the widening on-going debate on discoures and understandings of gender and its contested nature.' - Katarzyna Kosmala, Europe-Asia Studies

• Department of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, UK

  Rebecca Kay

ILDIKÓ ASZTALOS MORREL Lecturer in Sociology, Mälardalen University College, Sweden SUE BRIDGER Honorary Visiting Reader in Russian Studies, University of Bradford, UK MARY BUCKLEY Fellow and Director of Studies in Social and Political Sciences, Hughes Hall, Cambridge, UK HELENE CARLBÄCK Senior Lecturer in History, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Södertörn University College, Stockholm, Sweden YULIA GRADSKOVA Södertörn University College, Stockholm, Sweden LARISA KOSYGINA PhD Student, CREES, University of Birmingham, UK FRANCESCA STELLA PhD Student, Department of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, UK VIKKI TURBINE Doctoral Researcher, Department of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, UK NATALIA VINOKUROVA Senior Researcher, Central Economics & Mathematics Institute (CEMI), Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

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