This book showcases extensive research on gender under state socialism, examining the subject in terms of state policy and law; sexuality and reproduction; the academy; leisure; the private sphere; the work world; opposition activism; and memory and identity.

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SHANA PENN ****is a visiting scholar at the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, USA. JILL MASSINO ****is currently a visiting scholar in the history department at Northwestern University, USA.

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Introduction: Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe - Jill Massino and Shana Penn * PART I: WORK, ACTIVISM, AND IDENTITY * Workers under Construction: Gender, Identity, and Women's Experiences of Work in State Socialist Romania - Jill Massino * 'My Work, My Family, and My Car': Women's Memories of Work, Consumerism, and Leisure in Socialist Hungary - Eszter Zsófia Tóth * 'Where Do You Think I Learned How to Style My Own Hair?' Gender and Everyday Lives of Women Activists in Poland's League of Women - Basia Nowak * Translating Equality between Women and Men across Cold War Divides: Women Activists from Hungary and Romania and the Creation of International Women's Year - Raluca Maria Popa * PART II: SEX, REPRODUCTION, FAMILY RELATIONS, AND DOMESTIC SPACE * 'The Most Natural Function of Women': Ambiguous Party Policies and Female Experiences in Socialist Bulgaria - Ulf Brunnbauer * Sex, Divorce, and Women's Waged Work: Private Lives and State Policy in the Early German Democratic Republic - Donna Harsch * Women's Status and Wife-beating: Ideology and Practice under State Socialism in Poland, Romania, and Hungary - Isabel Marcus * How the Church Became the State: The Catholic Regime and Reproductive Rights and Policies in State Socialist Poland - Joanna Z. Mishtal * Designing for the Socialist Family: The Evolution of Housing Types in Early Postwar Czechoslovakia - Kimberly Elman Zarecor * PART III: CONSUMPTION, LEISURE, AND CULTURE * 'Are You a Modern Girl?': Consumer Culture and Young Women in 1960s Poland - Malgorzata Fidelis * 'When We Were Walking Down the Road and Singing': Rural Women's Memories of Socialism in Serbia - Ana Hofman * PART IV: GENDER AND RESISTANCE * Writing Themselves into History: Two Feminists Recall Their Political Development in the People's Republic of Poland - Shana Penn