Gender and Circulation in East European Politics and Societies: Introduction to the Special Issue
Gender and Circulation in East European Politics and Societies: Introduction to the Special Issue

Summary/Abstract: In 1994, EEPS published its first special section on gender. Editors Katherine Verdery and Jozsef Borocz noted that studies of gender are not about women; they are about women and men in relation to each other. Gender is an analytical category that, like class, focuses attention on a fundamental social relationship in society, the one between “masculine” and “feminine.” We can investigate how this social relationship operates through studies of symbolic representation, in processes of social inequality, and in the reproduction of society. The articles in the first special issue took up the intersection of gender with another important axis of social organization, the “nation.” They also explored the proposition that socialism as a sociopolitical system prescribed and attempted to impose a regime of gender relations, one that was quickly being transformed as socialism itself disappeared from the scene. [...]

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