Gender, Equality and Difference During And After State Socialism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. ‘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

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

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

10. Doubly Disadvantaged? Gender, Forced Migration and the Russian Labour Market
Larisa Kosygina

11. Press Images of Human Trafficking from Russia: Myths and Interpretations
Mary Buckley

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, European Union Politics, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, European Politics, Political Science, Gender Studies, Political Theory