CEU<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vienna Campus<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quellenstrasse 51<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Room: Auditorium<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Friday, October 20, 2023, 5:40 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaker<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Andrea Peto<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Eszter Varsa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Katalin F\u00e1bi\u00e1n<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Janet Elise Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mara Lazda<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Organised by Andrea Pet\u0151 and Eszter Varsa (CEU, Gender Studies)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Routledge International Handbook to Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia <\/em>examines the contemporary historical and political approaches to gender in Central-Eastern Europe and parts of Eurasia (CEE&E) from the 20th through the first two decades of the 21st century. With the collapse of communism starting in the late 1980s, the past three decades brought this large and previously relatively isolated region quickly into extensive contact with the rest of the world. The Handbook <\/em>asks how political forces have organized gender before, during, and after communism and how individuals and women\u2019s\/feminist groups respond. This collection is structured to present the developments in the study of women and gender in CEE&E through the defining debates, highlighting specificity but also the many inviting and challenging connections globally. In 51 chapters, leading scholars examine the region\u2019s highly diverse politics, histories, cultures, ethnicities, and religions, and how these structures intersect with gender alongside class, sexuality, coloniality, and racism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Gender is always one of the main axes around which politics, economics, and societies are organized, but communist-party regimes in CEE&E explicitly politicized gender by raising and ostensibly solving the \u201cwoman question.\u201d As Soviet power collapsed, state-defined gender ideologies transformed, making it even more obvious that not only social norms and economic conditions construct gender, but that gender is a structure of power shaped by distinct historical contexts. As the authors in the Handbook develop, we hold that gender represents systems of difference, privilege, and oppression that affect us all\u2014women, men, and those who do not fit within these binary categories\u2014and is created, not primarily through individual acts of sexism but through political, economic, and social processes, lived and inscribed into laws, informal norms, and practices. The Handbook<\/em> demonstrates how gender has become politicized and central to the various regimes over the last century and a half in CEE&E. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After a general introduction please join the editors and chapter authors for a digital conversation in zoom break out group on the study of gender in CEE&E and key themes of the book: 1) What are the advantages and challenges of its interdisciplinarity? 2) How useful have the debates–about western intervention, feminism, and the assessment of state socialist policies for promoting gender equality but also about the usefulness of traditional gender analytics–been for furthering this study? 3) How do ethical commitments inform our inquiry, including regarding the integration of race, intersectionality, and postcoloniality? 4) Whether and how it remains useful to consider as a region when it comes to analyzing gender? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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