Women in the Face of Change

Shirin Rai Lecturer in the Department of Politics, University of Warwick., Hilary Pilkington Lecturer in the Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies at the University of Birmingham., Anne Phizacklea Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Warwick.

• Introduction, Annie Phizacklea, Hilary Pilkington, Shirin Rai; Part I Swings and roundabouts; Chapter 1 Perestroika and the status of women in the Soviet Union, Natalia Rimashevskaia; Chapter 2 ‘Watering another man’s garden’, Shirin Rai; Chapter 3 Gender and political Part icipation in rural China, Zhang Junzuo; Chapter 4 Uneven burdens, Frances Pine; Part II The construction and reconstruction of gendered identities; Chapter 5 Population policy and reform, Delia Davin; Chapter 6 Whose space is it anyway?, Hilary Pilkington; Chapter 7 Sexual revolution or ‘sexploitation’?, Rosamund Shreeves; Chapter 8 Monogamy and female sexuality in the People’s Republic of China, Harriet Evans; Part III Towards a woman–s consciousness?; Chapter 9 Gendered identities, Chris Corrin; Chapter 10 Feminism and Bolshevism, Marina Malysheva, Hilary Pilkington; Chapter 11 The women’s movement in the USSR, Valentino Konstantinova;