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Gender, Generations, and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond
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.
List of contents
Introduction
Anna Artwińska and Agnieszka Mrozik
Part I: The Logic of Gender and Generation(s): Theoretical Approaches
1 Generational and Gendered Memory of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe: Methodological Perspectives and Political Challenges
Anna Artwińska and Agnieszka Mrozik
2. Acting and Memory, Hope and Guilt: The Bond of Generations in Arendt, Benjamin, Heine, and Freud
Sigrid Weigel
Part II: Generations and Gender in Historical Contexts: Comparative Case Studies
3. Communism, Left Feminism, and Generations in the 1930s: The Case of Yugoslavia
Isidora Grubački
4. Communisms, Generations, and Waves: The Cases of Italy, Yugoslavia, and Cuba
Chiara Bonfiglioli
5. Generations of Italian Communist Women and the Making of a Women’s Rights Agenda in the Cold War (1945–68): Historiography, Memory, and New Archival Evidence
Eloisa Betti
6. The Making of Turkish Migrant Left Feminism and Political Generations in the Ruhr, West Germany (1975–90)
Sercan Çinar
Part III: Women’s Biographical Experiences and Communism
7. "Old" Women and "Old" Revolution: The Role of Gender and Generation in Postwar Polish Communist Women’s Political Biographies
Natalia Jarska
8. Biographical Experience and Knowledge Production: Women Sociologists and Gender Issues in Communist Poland
Barbara Klich-Kluczewska and Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz
9. Without Tradition and Without Female Generation? The Case of Czech Artist Ester Krumbachová
Libuše Heczková and Kateřina Svatoňová
Part IV: Aesthetic Representations of Gendered Generations in Communism and Beyond
10. Girls from the Polish Youth Union: (Dis)remembrance of the Generation
Agnieszka Mrozik
11. "We’re Easy to Spot": Soviet Generation(s) After Soviet Era and the Invention of the Self in Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Anna Artwińska
12. Entering Gray Zones: Questions of Female Identity, Political Commitment, and Personal Choices in Jiřina Šiklová’s Memoir of Life Under Socialism and Beyond
Anja Tippner
13. Gender, Generational Conflict, and Communism: Tonia Lechtman’s Story
Anna Müller
Conclusion: From "Communism as Male Generational History" to a More Inclusive Narrative
Francisca de Haan
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