Gender, Equality and Difference During And After State Socialism

REBECCA KAY is Senior Lecturer in Russian Culture, Politics and Society at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is author of Men in Contemporary Russia: the Fallen Heroes of Post-Soviet Change?, Russian Women and their Organizations: Gender, Discrimination and Grassroots Women's Organizations 1991-96 and co-author of No More Heroines? Russian, Women and the Market.

• Introduction: Gender, Equality and the State from Socialism to Democracy?; R.Kay PART 1: EQUAL BUT DIFFERENT: STATE SOCIALISM AND WOMEN'S ROLES IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE 'We were very upset if we didn't look fashionable': Women's Beauty Practices in Post-War Russia; Y.Gradskova How to Combine Motherhood and Wage Labour: Hungarian Expert Perspectives during the 1960s; I.A.Morell Re-Privatising Women's Lives: From Khrushchev to Brezhnev; N.Vinokurova Wives or Workers? Women's Position in the Labour Force and in Domestic Life in Sweden and Russia during the 1960s; H.Carlbaeck Heroine-Mothers and Demographic Crises: The Legacy of the Late Soviet Era; S.Bridger PART 2: (RE-)NEGOTIATING GENDER, EQUALITY AND DIFFERENCE IN THE POSTSOCIALIST ERA: RIGHTS, PARTICIPATION AND MARGINALIZATION 'In our society it's as if the man is just some kind of stud': Men's Experiences of Fatherhood and Fathers' Rights in Contemporary Russia; R.Kay The Right to be Different? Sexual Citizenship and its Politics in Post-Soviet Russia; F.Stella Russian Women's Perceptions of Human Rights and Rights-Based Approaches in Everyday Life; V.Turbine Doubly Disadvantaged? Gender, Forced Migration and the Russian Labour Market; L.Kosygina Press Images of Human Trafficking from Russia: Myths and Interpretations; M.Buckley

'This fascinating volume offers a voice to those who have not been heard or represented locally, ordinary people from various regions of Russia and other places, forming a valuable contribution to the widening on-going debate on discoures and understandings of gender and its contested nature.' - Katarzyna Kosmala, Europe-Asia Studies