Women in Eastern European Post-Socialist Countries

Social, Scientific, and Political Lives

Agnieszka Kasińska-Metryka, Karolina Pałka-Suchojad, Agnieszka Kasi?ska-Metryka, Karolina Pa?ka-Suchojad, Agnieszka Kasi?ska-Metryka, Karolina Pa?ka-Suchojad, Agnieszka Kasi?ska-Metryka, Karolina Pa?ka-Suchojad

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781040038758
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Ciencias sociales
• Subtopic: Estudios de género

Women in Eastern European Post-Socialist Countries: Social, Scientific, and Political Lives explores the role of women in Central and Eastern Europe in bringing about social change, and the obstacles they face in fighting for equality in various areas of life such as science, politics, and reproductive rights.

Against a backdrop of increasing re-traditionalisation of post-socialist societies, and the reinvigoration of patriarchal attitudes, the book presents a timely and important collection. Through chapters authored by academics with different specialities across the social sciences, the book addresses the fundamental areas in which women's determination is already initiating changes, namely politics and diplomacy, science, reproductive rights, and customs resulting from religion.

Women in Eastern European Post-Socialist Countries is of interest to scholars of gender studies, political and social sciences, and contemporary central and eastern European history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of contributors
• Introduction
• 1. Women in the parliaments of Central and Eastern Europe
• 2. How much can women influence diplomacy?
• 3. Women’s opposition as an accelerator of change: The case of Belarus
• 4. Generational and cultural determinants of women’s participation in protests in central and eastern European countries in the twenty-first century
• 5. Black Protests in Poland: The transformation of public outrage with unconventional political participation
• 6. When the state does not want to listen: Non-governmental organizations in the protection of women’s reproductive rights
• 7. Alternative methods of realizing reproductive rights: In vitro on the Polish-Czech border
• 8. A female scientist in the European Union: Supporting the scientific development of women in member states
• 9. Political activity of women in the shackles of religion: How the politicization of religion and the sacralization of politics determine the role of women in Polish society
• 10. A feminist critique of “sustainable development”
• Conclusion
• Index