Table Of ContentSocieties and Political Orders in Transition
Katharina Bluhm
Gertrud Pickhan
Justyna Stypińska
Agnieszka Wierzcholska Editors
Gender
and Power
in Eastern
Europe
Changing Concepts of Femininity and
Masculinity in Power Relations
Societies and Political Orders in Transition
SeriesEditors
AlexanderChepurenko
HigherSchoolofEconomics,NationalResearchUniversity,Moscow,Russia
SteinUgelvikLarsen
UniversityofBergen,Bergen,Norway
WilliamReisinger
DepartmentofPoliticalScience,UniversityofIowa,IowaCity,IA,USA
ManagingEditors
EkimArbatli
HigherSchoolofEconomics,NationalResearchUniversity,Moscow,Russia
DinaRosenberg
HigherSchoolofEconomics,NationalResearchUniversity,Moscow,Russia
AigulMavletova
HigherSchoolofEconomics,NationalResearchUniversity,Moscow,Russia
This book series presents scientific and scholarly studies focusing on societies and
political orders in transition, for example in Central and Eastern Europe but also
elsewhere in the world. By comparing established societies, characterized by well-
establishedmarketeconomiesandwell-functioningdemocracies,withpost-socialist
societies,oftencharacterizedbyemergingmarketsandfragilepoliticalsystems,the
series identifiesandanalyzesfactorsinfluencingchangeandcontinuityinsocieties
and political orders. These factors include state capacity to establish formal and
informal rules, democratic institutions, forms of social structuration, political
regimes, levels of corruption, specificity of political cultures, as well as types and
orientationofpoliticalandeconomicelites.
Societies and Political Orders in Transition welcomes monographs and edited
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Topics may include, but are not limited to, democratization, regime change,
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InternationalAdvisoryBoard:
Bluhm,Katharina;FreieUniversitðtBerlin,Germany
Buckley, Cynthia; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sociological
Research,USA
Cox,Terry;CentralandEastEuropeanStudies,UniversityofGlasgow,UK
Fish,Steve;BerkeleyUniversity,USA
Ilyin,Michail;NationalResearchUniversityHigherSchoolofEconomics,Russia
Melville, Andrei; National Research University Higher School of Economics,
Russia
Radaev,Vadim;NationalResearchUniversityHigherSchoolofEconomics,Russia
(cid:129) (cid:129)
Katharina Bluhm Gertrud Pickhan
ń (cid:129)
Justyna Stypi ska Agnieszka Wierzcholska
Editors
Gender and Power in Eastern
Europe
Changing Concepts of Femininity
and Masculinity in Power Relations
Editors
KatharinaBluhm GertrudPickhan
InstituteofEastEuropeanStudies InstituteofEastEuropeanStudies
FreieUniversitätBerlin FreieUniversitätBerlin
Berlin,Germany Berlin,Germany
JustynaStypińska AgnieszkaWierzcholska
InstituteofEastEuropeanStudies InstituteofEastEuropeanStudies
FreieUniversitätBerlin FreieUniversitätBerlin
Berlin,Germany Berlin,Germany
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Acknowledgements
TheideaforthisbookemergedwiththeinternationalconferenceGender—Power—
EasternEurope:ChangingConceptsofFemininitiesandMasculinities andPower
Relations organized by the Institute for East European Studies of Freie Universität
BerlinandfundedbyZeit-StiftungEbelinundGerdBucerius.Theeditorswouldlike
tothankallthescholarswhoparticipatedintheconferenceandwhoseworkwasnot
includedinthisbook,andyetwhoseintellectualcontributionremainsinvaluablefor
theconceptualoutlineofthisvolume.TheeditorswouldalsoliketothankLeonardo
Verropoulos, Eiske Schäfer, and Nadja Sieffert for organizing the conference;
Aleksandr Lange for technically editing the manuscript and helping coordinate its
development; Eiske Schäfer for her help in preparing the volume for publication;
MicheleFaguetforcopyeditingandproofreadingmostofthechapters;andSophie
Schlondorfffortranslation.
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Contents
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
KatharinaBluhm,GertrudPickhan,JustynaStypińska,
andAgnieszkaWierzcholska
PartI FeminisminEasternEuropeRevisited
TheEnemyofMyEnemyIsMyFriend:TheCuriousTale
ofFeminismandCapitalisminEasternEurope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
KristenR.Ghodsee
BlamingFeministsIsNotUnderstandingHistory:ACritical
RejoindertoGhodsee’sTakeonFeminism,Neoliberalism
andNationalisminEasternEurope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
AgnieszkaGraff
FeministStoriesfromanIlliberalState:RevokingtheLicense
toTeachGenderStudiesinHungaryataUniversityinExile(CEU). . . 35
AndreaPető
EmancipationisMorethantheFreedomofChoice:Rethinking
theFeministAgendainPostsocialism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
OlgaSasunkevich
PartII NewConflictsandEmpowermentStrategies
Ukraine’sFemaleCombatants:TheInfluenceofConflictonGender
RolesandEmpowerment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
RebeccaBarth
GenderRolesintheRearoftheWarinDonbas:Women’s
EngagementintheCareofWoundedCombatants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
IouliaShukan
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RussianViciousCircles:TheFacebookFlashMob#яНеБоюсьСказать,
Biopolitics,andRapeCulture.................................. 107
ElenaKorowin
TheAmbivalenceoftheOrdinary:ThePolishWomen’sStrike(OSK)
andtheWomen’sMarch8thAlliance(PK8M)inaComparative
Perspective. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
JenniferRammeandClaudiaSnochowska-Gonzalez
PartIII Work,Money,andPower
PuttingCareattheCenter:WomenOrganizingTradeUnions
intheCareSectorinPoland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
JuliaKubisa
QuestioningtheRetraditionalizationThesis:GenderDifferences
inPaidandUnpaidWorkinBulgaria(1970–2010). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
GerganaNenova
AutonomyasEmpowerment,orHowGenderedPowerManifests
ItselfinContemporaryRussianFamilies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
AlyaGusevaandDilyaraIbragimova
PartIV ChangingConceptsofMasculinityandFatherhood
MasculineStrategiesinRussianOrthodoxy:FromAsceticismto
Militarization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
BorisKnorre
QuestioningGenderStereotypesUnderSocialism:FatherlyEmotions
andtheCaseofSingleFathers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
PeterHallama
TheEastGermanMan:“BrownPerpetratorofViolence,”“Sensitive
Father”?AnExplorationofMediaDiscoursesandScholarlyStudies. . . 227
SylkaScholz
RussianFatherhood:FromDistancetoParticipation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
ElenaRozhdestvenskaya
Editors and Contributors
About the Editors
KatharinaBluhm isaprofessorofsociologywithafocusonEasternEuropeand
Russia at the Freie Universität Berlin. She has published widely on the transition
from communism to market economy in a comparative perspective. Among her
recentbooksareNewConservatives inRussiaandEastCentralEurope(co-edited
with Mihai Varga, Routledge, 2019) and Business Leaders and New Varieties of
CapitalisminPost-CommunistEurope(Routledge,2014).Bluhmhaspublishedtwo
articlesinGermanpeer-reviewedjournalsaboutherrecentresearchonRussia’snew
conservatism, economic nationalism, and family policy. One addresses the rise of
the new conservative intellectual circles in Russia, while the other details the core
concepts of Russian conservatives and their relationship to Europe. She regularly
teachescoursesongender,nation,andstate;welfarestateandgender;andeconomic
sociologyandinstitutionaltheory.
Gertrud Pickhan is a professor of East-Central European history at the Freie
UniversitätBerlin.SheearnedherPhDinHistory attheUniversityofHamburgin
May1989.AfterteachingattheBundeswehrUniversityinHamburgfrom1985to
1992,shewasaresearchfellowattheGermanHistoricalInstituteinWarsawfrom
1993 to 1997. From 1997 to 2000, she taught at the Simon Dubnow Institute for
Jewish History and Culture in Leipzig, where she also served as deputy to the
Founding Director. From 2000 to 2003, she was Professor of Polish Studies at the
Technical University of Dresden. The research focuses on the historic cultural
landscapeofEast-CentralEurope,whichwaslargelyshapedbyitsmultiethnicand
intercultural circumstances. Plurality and diversity and the resultant contacts and
conflictsarebeingstudiedinvariousprojects.
Justyna Stypińska is a postdoctoral researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin,
Institute of East European Studies, Department of Sociology, Germany. She
received her PhD from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow for a dissertation on
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agediscriminationinthelabourmarket.Currently,sheisaleaderofaninternational
project MOMENT—Making of Mature Entrepreneurship in Germany and Poland.
Her research interest focuses on ageing on the labour markets, age and gender
inequalities in the life course perspective, as well as the relation between ageing,
socialinnovation,andsocialsustainability.
Agnieszka Wierzcholska is a postdoctoral researcher in history at the Freie
Universität Berlin. She has received her PhD from the Freie Universität for the
dissertation“RelationsBetweenJewsandnon-JewsinPoland,1918–1956:Amicro-
historical Study on Tarnów”. Her research interests are primarily Jewish history in
Eastern Europe, the Holocaust, as well as nation-building in the region. Addition-
ally,WierzcholskaisinterestedingenderhistoryandfeministmovementsinPoland.
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Rebecca Barth is a journalist and a scholar based in Berlin. She studied Slavic
studies and East European studies in Berlin, Moscow, and Kiev. Her work was
published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Fluter, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and
RBB. Her research as well as her journalistic career focuses on the recent social
andpoliticalupheavalsinUkraine.
Kristen Ghodsee is a professor of Russian and East European Studies and a
memberoftheGraduateGroupinAnthropologyattheUniversityofPennsylvania.
She has written seven books on gender, socialism, and postsocialism. Ghodsee’s
2018 book, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments
forEconomicIndependence,hasalreadyhadelevenforeigneditions,includingfive
translationsintothelanguagesofformerstatesocialistcountriesinEasternEurope.
Her articles and essays have also been translated into over twenty languages and
haveappearedinpublicationssuchasDissent,ForeignAffairs,Jacobin,TheBaffler,
The New Republic, Quartz, The Lancet, Project Syndicate, The Washington Post,
and the New York Times. Ghodsee has held residential research fellowships at the
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey; the Radcliffe Institute for
Advanced Study at Harvard University; the Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars in Washington DC; the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies in
Germany; the Imre Kertész Kolleg at the Friedrich Schiller Universität in Jena,
Germany; the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Ger-
many;andtheAleksanteriInstituteoftheUniversityofHelsinkiinFinland.In2012,
Ghodsee was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for her work in
anthropologyandculturalstudies.
