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History Russia & The Former Soviet Union

Superwomen and Double Burden

Women's Experience of Change in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

edited by Chris Corrin

Publisher
Canadian Scholars' Press Inc.
Initial publish date
Jun 1992
Category
Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Women's Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780929005348
    Publish Date
    Jun 1992
    List Price
    $18.95

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Description

An extraordinary collection which looks at the changing experience of women in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, the former German Democratic Republic and the former Soviet Union. Written by women working in the fields of politics, sociology and history, Superwomen and the Double Burden is the first comprehensive analysis of the practical, political and psychological effects on women in societies which have been changing so drastically in the past few years. What is the reality of these women's lives and what can they expect in the future? Will the newly emerging pluralist democracies create more just socieites? Or does increasing female unemployment, complemented with a resurgence of power of the Church, indicate something else?
An intriguing exploration into societies shrouded in mystery for the past half century, Superwomen and the Double Burden is an eye-opening look for all of us in the West.

About the author

About the Editor: Chris Corrin lives and works in Glasgow, teaching politics at Glasgow University.

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