Geographic scope of the book:
Poland    Hungary
Romania   Yugoslavia
Bulgaria   Croatia
Czech Republic  Slovak Republic
(East) Germany
 
Goal of the book:
"to consider the processes of the post-socialist transformations from a gendered perspective" (3)
 
Premises:
[the]“costs of transforming moribund socialist economies into thriving markets...experienced differently by women and men" (3).

Democratization is a fundamentally different process for men and women because women are imagined differently as citizens and politics is defined as a male endeavor (3)
 
Do you agree?

What about the gender equality promised by state socialism?
 
Chpt. 1 After Socialism
Post-communism not a tabula rasa.

Need to consider both pre-communist notions of gender relations and ideas about gender

As well as the way gender was constructed and manipulated by state-socialist regimes.

How do states and markets regulate gender relations (4)????

Do you accept the idea that they do?]

Do you accept the argument that "what it means to be a 'man' or a 'woman' varies historically (4)"?

How so??  Give examples of variation

e.g. They argue that male/female shaped by both everyday interactions framed within larger discourses and specific institutions (4)

What the heck does this mean????????