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

Chapter 1 Introduction: Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe

Chapter 2 Workers under Construction: Gender, Identity, and Women’s Experiences of Work in State Socialist Romania

Chapter 3 “My Work, My Family, and My Car”: Women’s Memories of Work, Consumerism, and Leisure in Socialist Hungary

Chapter 4 “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

Chapter 5 Translating Equality between Women and Men across Cold War Divides: Women Activists from Hungary and Romania and the Creation of International Women’s Year

Chapter 6 “The Most Natural Function of Women”: Ambiguous Party Policies and Female Experiences in Socialist Bulgaria

Chapter 7 Sex, Divorce, and Women’s Waged Work: Private Lives and State Policy in the Early German Democratic Republic

Chapter 8 Wife Beating: Ideology and Practice under State Socialism in Hungary, Poland, and Romania

Chapter 9 How the Church Became the State: The Catholic Regime and Reproductive Rights in State Socialist Poland

Chapter 10 Designing for the Socialist Family: The Evolution of Housing Types in Early Postwar Czechoslovakia

Chapter 11 Are You a Modern Girl? Consumer Culture and Young Women in 1960s Poland

Chapter 12 “When We Were Walking down the Road and Singing”: Rural Women’s Memories of Socialism in Serbia

Chapter 13 Writing Themselves into History: Two Feminists Recall Their Political Development in the People’s Republic of Poland