Edited by Anna Artwi\u0144ska and Agnieszka Mrozik<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Communism in twentieth-century Europe is predominantly narrated as a totalitarian movement and\/or regime. This book aims to go beyond this narrative and provide an alternative framework to describe the communist past. This reframing is possible thanks to the concepts of generation and gender, which are used in the book as analytical categories in an intersectional overlap. The publication covers twentieth-century Poland, Czechoslovakia\/Czech Republic, the Soviet Union\/Russia, former Yugoslavia, Turkish communities in West Germany, Italy, and Cuba (as a comparative point of reference). It provides a theoretical frame and overview chapters on several important gender and generation narratives about communism, anticommunism, and postcommunism. Its starting point is the belief that although methodological reflection on communism, as well as on generations and gender, is conducted extensively in contemporary research, the overlapping of these three terms is still rare. The main focus in the first part is on methodological issues. The second part features studies which depict the possibility of generational-gender interpretations of history. The third part is informed by biographical perspectives. The last part shows how the problem of generations and gender is staged via the medium of literature and how it can be narrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ISBN 9780367522216<\/p>\n\n\n\n
352 Pages 1 B\/W Illustrations<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Published August 1, 2022 by Routledge<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Introduction<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anna Artwi\u0144ska and Agnieszka Mrozik<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Part I: The Logic of Gender and Generation(s): Theoretical Approaches<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1 Generational and Gendered Memory of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe: Methodological Perspectives and Political Challenges<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anna Artwi\u0144ska and Agnieszka Mrozik<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Acting and Memory, Hope and Guilt: The Bond of Generations in Arendt, Benjamin, Heine, and Freud<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sigrid Weigel<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Part II: Generations and Gender in Historical Contexts: Comparative Case Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Communism, Left Feminism, and Generations in the 1930s: The Case of Yugoslavia<\/p>\n\n\n\n Isidora Gruba\u010dki<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. Communisms, Generations, and Waves: The Cases of Italy, Yugoslavia, and Cuba<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chiara Bonfiglioli<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Generations of Italian Communist Women and the Making of a Women\u2019s Rights Agenda in the Cold War (1945\u201368): Historiography, Memory, and New Archival Evidence<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eloisa Betti<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. The Making of Turkish Migrant Left Feminism and Political Generations in the Ruhr, West Germany (1975\u201390)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sercan \u00c7inar<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Part III: Women\u2019s Biographical Experiences and Communism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. “Old” Women and “Old” Revolution: The Role of Gender and Generation in Postwar Polish Communist Women\u2019s Political Biographies<\/p>\n\n\n\n Natalia Jarska<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. Biographical Experience and Knowledge Production: Women Sociologists and Gender Issues in Communist Poland<\/p>\n\n\n\n Barbara Klich-Kluczewska and Katarzyna Sta\u0144czak-Wi\u015blicz<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. Without Tradition and Without Female Generation? The Case of Czech Artist Ester Krumbachov\u00e1<\/p>\n\n\n\n Libu\u0161e Heczkov\u00e1 and Kate\u0159ina Svato\u0148ov\u00e1<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Part IV: Aesthetic Representations of Gendered Generations in Communism and Beyond<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 10. Girls from the Polish Youth Union: (Dis)remembrance of the Generation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Agnieszka Mrozik<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 11. “We\u2019re Easy to Spot”: Soviet Generation(s) After Soviet Era and the Invention of the Self in Svetlana Alexievich\u2019s Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Anna Artwi\u0144ska<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 12. Entering Gray Zones: Questions of Female Identity, Political Commitment, and Personal Choices in Ji\u0159ina \u0160iklov\u00e1\u2019s Memoir of Life Under Socialism and Beyond<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anja Tippner<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 13. Gender, Generational Conflict, and Communism: Tonia Lechtman\u2019s Story<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anna M\u00fcller<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Conclusion: From “Communism as Male Generational History” to a More Inclusive Narrative<\/p>\n\n\n\n Francisca de Haan<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Anna Artwi\u0144ska<\/strong> is a Junior Professor of Slavic Literature and Culture Studies and Chair of the Center for Women\u2019s and Gender Studies at the University of Leipzig, Germany. Her main research interests are the memory of communism, postcatastrophic representation of the Shoah, the concept of generation, auto\/biographical writing and gender, and postcolonial studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Agnieszka Mrozik<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN) in Warsaw, Poland. She is affiliated with two research teams, The Centre for Cultural and Literary Studies of Communism, and the Archives of Women. Her main research interests are communism and gender studies, cultural history of women and women\u2019s movement in Central and Eastern Europe, women\u2019s life writing and literature, critical analysis of media discourse and popular culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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