Review of Feinburg’s Elusive Equality, Johnson and Robinson’s Living Gender after Communism, and Wingfield and Bucur’s Gender and War in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe
Review of Feinburg’s Elusive Equality, Johnson and Robinson’s Living Gender after Communism, and Wingfield and Bucur’s Gender and War in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe
Author(s): Irene Hanson Frieze, Josephine E. OlsonSubject(s): Civil Society, Political history, Gender history, Recent History (1900 till today), Government/Political systems, Social differentiation, History of Communism, Book-Review, Sociology of Politics
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Equality; gender; politics; political history; civil society; Communism; 20th century; book review;
Summary/Abstract: The review of: 1) Elusive Equality: Gender, Citizenship, and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovakia, 1918–1950, by Melissa Feinberg. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. 2) Living Gender after Communism, by Janet Elise Johnson and Jean C. Robinson. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2007. 3) Gender and War in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe, edited by Nancy Wingfield and Maria Bucur. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. $24.95 (paperback).
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 22/2008
- Issue No: 03
- Page Range: 693-701
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
