Making Their Place: Feminism After Socialism in Eastern Germany

by Katja Guenther

Book Overview

The collapse of state socialism in eastern and central Europe in 1989 had a dramatic impact on women. Witnessing the loss of state support for their economic activity, the curtailing of their reproductive rights, and the rise of gender ideologies that value women primarily as mothers and wives rather than as active participants in the workforce, women across eastern and central Europe organized on a local level to resist these changes.

Making...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804770727
• ISBN13: 9780804770729
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"