How has post-socialism reconstructed gender relations?
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SummaryPost socialism is not a term that can be used to blanket entire regions and nations and categorize entire systems and populations. “Post-socialism cannot be reduced to neoliberal economic restructuring nor just the legacies of socialism (and pre-socialism), nor indeed to the passage of transition. It is all three.” (Stenning, 124) Stenning emphasizes that the varied range of these places in the post-socialist world “…is vast and diverse, incorporating the cosmopolitan cities of central Europe and the steppes of Siberia and Asia…” (114). More or less, we can understand post-socialism to indicate the “erosion, even disintegration, of the post-war system which had certain features… (which were) the prominent role played by the state in social, economic and international affairs, planning, paternalism and militarization, mass production and the privileged position accorded to organized workers.” (Einhorn, 1996; 14)
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- The revolution of 1989 was the final step in a succession of uprisings over the earlier thirty years.
- Just as full employment opportunities were available under socialism, birth control choices were available as well.
- The view of gender rights and restrictions in post-socialist nations does not take place in a vacuum.
- The ambiguities in the situation of women both before and after.
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