TY - BOOK AU - Regulska,Joanna AU - Lukic,Jasmina TI - Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe SN - 9781351872393 AV - HQ1590.7 .W65 2016 U1 - 323.60820947 PY - 2006/// CY - Oxford PB - Taylor & Francis Group KW - Women-Europe, Eastern-Social conditions KW - Citizenship-Europe, Eastern KW - Women-Political activity-Europe, Eastern KW - Europe, Eastern-Politics and government-1945- KW - Europe, Eastern-Social conditions KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Regimes -- 1 Romanian Gender Regimes and Women's Citizenship -- 2 Women and the Law in Poland: Towards Active Citizenship -- 3 Citizenship, Systemic Change, and the Gender Division of Labor in Rural Hungary -- 4 Clashes and Ordeals of Women's Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe -- 5 Gender Equality in Latvia: Achievements and Challenges -- Part 2: Agency -- 6 The Parameters of the Political: Does Meaning Matter for Participation in Public Life for Women in Poland and Ukraine? -- 7 Belgrade's Protests 1996/1997: From Women in the Movement to Women's Movement? -- 8 "A Right and a Great Need": Food Rights and Praxis in Silesia, Poland -- 9 Disabled Women's Everyday Citizenship Rights in East Europe: Examples from Slovenia -- 10 The Making of Political Responsibility: Hannah Arendt and/in the Case of Serbia -- Part 3: Transnational Dialogues -- 11 Poetics, Politics and Gender -- 12 Looking at Western Feminisms through the Double Lens of Eastern Europe and the Third World -- 13 Women's NGOs in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: The Imperialist Criticism -- 14 Cautionary Tales -- Epilogue: Persisting Struggles -- Name Index -- Subject Index N2 - This book challenges the universal notion of 'citizenship' by focusing on the diversity of situations women in this region have found themselves in since the end of the 80's, looking at the challenges and struggles they have faced to assert themselves as citizens and their citizenship rights. Featuring detailed case studies which demonstrate the social and political discrimination between women that still exists, the book will be of interest to academics and post-graduate students in women's/gender studies, political sociology and European studies UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4817106 ER -