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Product Identifiers

PublisherColumbia University Press

ISBN-100231127154

ISBN-139780231127158

eBay Product ID (ePID)2447903

Product Key Features

Number of Pages272 Pages

Publication NameGender, Globalization, and Postsocialism : the Czech Republic after Communism

LanguageEnglish

SubjectFeminism & Feminist Theory, Globalization, Sociology / General, Gender Studies, International Relations / General, General, Women's Studies

Publication Year2003

TypeTextbook

AuthorJacqui True

Subject AreaFamily & Relationships, Political Science, Social Science

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight14 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width7.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2003-043483

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsThis book contains... extremely important information and clearly formulated arguments... I will be happy to add this to my syllabus., "This book contains... extremely important information and clearly formulated arguments... I will be happy to add this to my syllabus. " -- Eva Fodor, Slavic Review, "This excellent study of gender, globalization, and postsocialism in the Czech Republic is a welcome addition to feminist international relations and comparative politics theory and the literature on transitions in Central and Eastern Europe.... highly readable and well organized." -- Karen J. Vogel, Perspectives on Politics

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal305.3/094371

Table Of ContentGlobalization, Gender and Post-Socialism Gendering State Socialism Refashioning the Family Establishing Labour Markets Expanding Consumer Markets Importing Civil Society Engendering Global Political Economy

SynopsisTrue examines political and gendered identities in flux in post-communist Czech Republic. She argues that the privatization of a formerly state economy and the adoption of consumer-oriented market practices were shaped by ideas and attitudes about gender roles. This book also offers a provocative general thesis about the inextricable linkages between political and economic changes and gender identities., How are changing gender relations shaping and being shaped by post-socialist marketization and liberalization? Do new forms of economic and cultural globalization open spaces for women's empowerment and feminist politics? The rapid social transformations experienced by the people of the Czech Republic in the wake of the collapse of communism in 1989 afford political scientist Jacqui True with an opportunity to answer these questions by examining political and gendered identities in flux. She argues that the privatization of a formerly state economy and the adoption of consumer-oriented market practices were shaped by ideas and attitudes about gender roles. Though finely tuned to the particular, local traditions that have defined the boundaries of globalization for Czech men and women, Gender, Globalization, and Postsocialism also offers a provocative general thesis about the inextricable linkages between political and economic changes and gender identities.

LC Classification NumberHQ1075.5.C94T78 2003