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Author True, Jacqui.

Title Gender, globalization, and postsocialism : the Czech Republic after communism / Jacqui True.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 241 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary How are changing gender relations shaping and being shaped by post-socialist marketization and liberalization? Do new forms of economic and cultural globalization open spaces for women's empowerment and feminist politics? The rapid social transformations experienced by the people of the Czech Republic in the wake of the collapse of communism in 1989 afford political scientist Jacqui True with an opportunity to answer these questions by examining political and gendered identities in flux. She argues that the privatization of a formerly state economy and the adoption of consumer-oriented market practices were shaped by ideas and attitudes about gender roles. Though finely tuned to the particular, local traditions that have defined the boundaries of globalization for Czech men and women, Gender, Globalization, and Postsocialism also offers a provocative general thesis about the inextricable linkages between political and economic changes and gender identities.
Contents Preface; 1: Gender, Globalization, and Postsocialism; 2: Gendering State Socialism; 3: Refashioning the Family; 4: Establishing Labor Markets; 5: Expanding Consumer Markets; 6: Importing Civil Society; 7: Engendering Global Political Economy; Notes; References; Index.
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Subject Sex role -- Czech Republic.
Sex role.
Czech Republic.
Man-woman relationships -- Czech Republic.
Man-woman relationships.
Sexual division of labor -- Czech Republic.
Sexual division of labor.
Women -- Czech Republic -- Social conditions.
Women.
Social conditions.
Social structure -- Czech Republic.
Social structure.
Globalization.
Globalization.
Feminist economics.
Feminist economics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Gender roles.
Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: True, Jacqui. Gender, globalization, and postsocialism. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2003 0231127146 0231127154 (DLC) 2003043483 (OCoLC)51629689
ISBN 0231501773 (electronic book)
9780231501774 (electronic book)
0231127146
9780231127141
9780231127141
0231127146
9780231127158
0231127154
Music No. EB00639102 Recorded Books