Heike Kahlert

Engendering Transformation: Post-socialist Experiences on Work, Politics, and Culture - GENDER Sonderheft Heike Kahlert

Even more than 20 years after turning away from socialism, Eastern European and Central Asian states are still characterized by the regime change in the fields of work, politics, and culture. What are the effects and implications that this change has produced for gender relations in post-socialist countries? And what does this mean for the situation of women and men living there today? In this context, gender relations are especially interesting since gender equality was perceived as a political goal and, moreover, a given reality in socialism. The articles in this special Volume 1 issue of GENDER show the changes in, as well as the stability of, gender relations and power structures during the transformation process in post-socialist times. The essays shed light on topics like labor market policies, fertility, political representation of female or male artists concerned with gender issues - covering the geographical space from Hungary and Poland to Bulgaria and Romania, as well as Ukr