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1 online resource |
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polychrome. |
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data file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Two logics, one life -- A velvet vision: the economic liberalization (and liberation) of the Czech Republic -- Rational economic (wo)men: market mantras and managers -- No (wo)man's land: the postsocialist purgatory of Czech female factory workers -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Sample demographics. |
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| Summary |
Annotation Drawing on a rich trove of focus group data, interviews, and textual sources, Elaine Weiner's Market Dreams powerfully captures the varied responses of female managers and factory workers in the Czech Republic to their country's transition from socialism to capitalism. Her work, rooted in sociology and comparative feminism, is an important advance for the literature on women in Eastern Europe." Market Dreams is a conceptually-sophisticated and empirically-rich account of how the discourses and practices of the free market penetrated the hearts and minds of everyday Czech citizens. Weiner's provocative analysis takes readers inside the worlds of female factory workers to expose the discontinuities between their radiant market dreams and their everyday realities--and juxtaposes them to the continuities experienced by female managers. In the process, it challenges many of our ideas about post/socialism, marketization, and gender and reveals the enduring power of stories in shaping social identities and actions."<br />--Lynne Haney, Associate Professor of Sociology, New York University "Through interviews and a careful analysis of newspaper articles written in the first decade after the collapse of state socialism, Weiner explores the complicated interconnections between personal stories and the emerging neoliberal metanarrative of the free market in the Czech Republic after 1989. Her book transcends many of the dichotomies with which researchers of post-state socialism have been struggling: 'East' vs. 'West, ' losers and winners, emancipation vs. oppression, etc., and thus makes a truly novel contribution to our understanding of women's lives after state socialism."<br />--Éva Fodor, Assistant Professor of Gender Studies, Central European University "Weiner's rich and innovative study of female Czech managers and workers exemplifies the importance of narrative analysis for understanding why gender and class have not (yet) reconfigured the sense of postcommunism's alternatives. This is critical reading for feminists, class analysts, and students of postcommunist social change."<br />--Michael Kennedy, Director, Center for European Studies, University of Michigan Elaine Weiner is Assistant Professor of Sociology at McGill University. Visit the author's website at: www.mcgill.ca/sociology/faculty/weiner/. Cover Credit: Frank Scherschel/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Sex role -- Czech Republic.
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Sex role. |
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Czech Republic. |
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Czech Republic -- Social conditions -- 1993-
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Social conditions. |
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1993- |
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Czech Republic -- Economic conditions -- 1993-
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Economic conditions. |
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Since 1993 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Gender roles. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Market dreams Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007. 9780472099887 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2006038424 |
| ISBN |
9780472026142 ebook |
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0472026143 |
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0472069888 paperback : alkaline paper |
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0472099884 cloth : alkaline paper |
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9780472069880 paperback : alkaline paper |
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9780472099887 cloth : alkaline paper |
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1282597760 |
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9781282597761 |
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9786612597763 |
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6612597763 |
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0472099884 |
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9780472099887 |
| Standard No. |
9780472099887 |
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10.3998/mpub.206852 |
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