Living gender after communism

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-249) and index.

Housewife fantasies, family realities in the new Russia / Tania Rands Lyon -- Contesting violence, contesting gender : crisis centers encountering local governments in Barnaul, Russia / Janet Elise Johnson -- The abortion debate in Poland : opinion polls, ideological politics, citizenship, and the erasure of gender as a category of analysis / Anne-Marie Kramer -- The gendered body as raw material for women artists of Central Eastern Europe after communism / Ewa Grigar -- Birthday girls, Russian dolls, and others : Internet bride as the emerging global identity of post-Soviet women / Svitlana Taraban -- Does the gender of MPs matter in postcommunist politics? : the case of the Russian Duma, 1995-2001 / Iulia Shevchenko -- Romanian women's discourses of sexual violence : othered ethnicities, gendering spaces / Shannon Woodcock -- Challenging the discourse of Bosnian war rapes / Azra Hromadzic -- Deficient Belarus? : insidious gender binaries and hyper-feminized nationality / Anna Brzozowska -- Fifteen years of the East-West women's dialogue / Nanette Funk.