1) that notions of public/private are historically specific;

2) that what is defined as public and private activities varies from economic system to economic system

3) that state policies serve to reify culturally understood (or state promoted) definitions of public and private

4) that the public/private roles/responsibilities of men and women are different

5) that public/private gender roles vary according to class
 
After reading Gal and Kligman and considering the history and contemporary condition of women in your country, you should be able to

1) describe how public/private was defined by state socialist regimes and experienced by men and women living under these regimes
and

2) describe how public/private are being redefined during the transition to market democracy
and

3) how this redefinition is playing out in the lives of real men and women in post-Communist societies
 
Some supporting points from the text:
(40) [T]he public/private distinction is an aspect of ideology, closely related to historical circumstances that it is trying to explain and shape.

[T]he boundaries and definitions of public and private [shift overtime].

[T]he placement of the boundary has itself often been a matter of contention.
(41)

[T]he public/private dichotomy is best understood as a discursive distinction that can be used to characterize, categorize, organize, and contrast virtually any kind of social fact:  spaces, institutions, groups, people’s identities, discourses, activities, interactions, relations.
 
Can you think of some examples??????
In the West, our notions of public/private grow out of industrializing 19th Century Europe

The shift to urban, waged-labor economy with men going out to earn a paycheck and women staying home doing un-paid reproductive labor (including keeping up family morale/morality as the men returned home de-based, de-moralized, worn-out)

Was there a public/private division before that?  What did it look like?  What was the division of labor between the sexes like?

How did state socialist regimes redefine public/private and the gendered division of labor in theory????

Did they redefine these in practice????
How are these being redefined once again by post-Communist transition?

How do public/private roles differ by class (in the West as well as in the post-Communist world)?