Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe

Introduction: Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe - Jill Massino and Shana Penn PART I: WORK, ACTIVISM, AND IDENTITY Workers under Construction: Gender, Identity, and Women's Experiences of Work in State Socialist Romania - Jill Massino 'My Work, My Family, and My Car': Women's Memories of Work, Consumerism, and Leisure in Socialist Hungary - Eszter Zsófia Tóth 'Where Do You Think I Learned How to Style My Own Hair?' Gender and Everyday Lives of Women Activists in Poland's League of Women - Basia Nowak Translating Equality between Women and Men across Cold War Divides: Women Activists from Hungary and Romania and the Creation of International Women's Year - Raluca Maria Popa PART II: SEX, REPRODUCTION, FAMILY RELATIONS, AND DOMESTIC SPACE 'The Most Natural Function of Women': Ambiguous Party Policies and Female Experiences in Socialist Bulgaria - Ulf Brunnbauer Sex, Divorce, and Women's Waged Work: Private Lives and State Policyin the Early German Democratic Republic - Donna Harsch Women's Status and Wife-beating: Ideology and Practice under State Socialism in Poland, Romania, and Hungary - Isabel Marcus How the Church Became the State: The Catholic Regime and Reproductive Rights and Policies in State Socialist Poland - Joanna Z. Mishtal Designing for the Socialist Family: The Evolution of Housing Types in Early Postwar Czechoslovakia - Kimberly Elman Zarecor PART III: CONSUMPTION, LEISURE, AND CULTURE 'Are You a Modern Girl?': Consumer Culture and Young Women in 1960s Poland - Malgorzata Fidelis 'When We Were Walking Down the Road and Singing': Rural Women's Memories of Socialism in Serbia - Ana Hofman PART IV: GENDER AND RESISTANCE Writing Themselves into History: Two Feminists Recall Their Political Development in the People's Republic of Poland - Shana Penn