Women in Post-communism

Introduction The dynamics of societal macro changes - implications for the life of women, Barbara Wejnert. Part 1 Post-communist politics and women's identity: political transition and gender transformation in the communist and post-communist periods, Barbara Wejnert; institutionalization, identity, and the political participation of women in the new Bundeslander, Myra Marx Ferree; a land of brothers united? Xenophobia and the reassertion of ner patriarchy in the new Germany, Dorothy J. Rosenberg; women's political participation in Central and Eastern Europe - a cross-cultural perspective, Renata Siemienska; the masquerade of equality - women and politics in Romania, Irina Liczek; sexual equality in post-communist Eastern Europe, Zillah Eisenstein; when the world for Peacenik was woman - war and gender in the former Yugoslavia, Sonja Licht and Slobodan Drakulic; woman's participation inpost-communist social dialogua, Elena A. Iankova. Part 2 Post-communist economy and women's well-being: challenges of the modern world, Yevgena Issraelyan; the quality of life in post-communist Poland - a gender perspective, Barbara Wejnert; leaders and breeders - the archaization of gender relationsin Croatia, Patricia Albanese; between the vampire husband and the mortal lover - a narrative for feminism in Yugoslavia, Svetlana Slapsak; patriarchal mortality versus democracy - the 1993 German constitutional Court Decision on Abortion, Nanette Funk; ethnic conflict, rape, and feminism - the case of Yugoslavia, Maja Korac; post-socialist patriarchy, Metta Spencer.