These essays, by American, Canadian, and East European scholars, provide a comprehensive look at the status of women in Eastern Europe, with particular emphasis on the postwar situation.

Sharon L. Wolchik and Alfred Meyer, eds.

Tables and Figures vii
Acknowledgments xi
Foreword xiii
Introduction / Sharon L. Wolchik 1
I. Conditioning Factors
1. Feminism, Socialism, and Nationalism in Eastern Europe / Alfred G. Meyer 13
2. The Precommunist Legacy, Economic Development, Social Transformation, and Women's Roles in Eastern Europe / Sharon L. Wolchik 31
II. Women in the Precommunist Period
Introduction / Sharon L. Wolchik 47
3. Medical Education for Women in Austria: A Study in the Politics of the Czech Women's Movement in the 1890s / Karen Johnson Freeze 51
4. Women in the First Czechoslovak Republic / Bruce M. Garver 64
5. Ukrainian Feminism in Interwar Poland / Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak 82
6. Peasant Women of Croatia in the Interwar Years / Mary E. Reed 98
III. Women and Politics
Introduction / Sharon L. Wolchik 115
7. Women in Romanian Politics: Elena Ceausescu, Pronatalism, and the Promotion of Women / Mary Ellen Fischer 121
8. From Courtyard to Cabinet: The Political Emergence of Albanian Women / John Kolsti 138
9. Women in Local Communist Politics in Romania and Poland / Daniel N. Nelson 152
10. Women in the Opposition in Poland and Czechoslovakia / Barbara W. Jancar 168
IV. Women and Work: Production and Reproduction
Introduction / Sharon L. Wolchik 189
11. The Socioeconomic Conditions of Women in Hungary / Rozsa Kulcsar 195
12. Theory and Reality: The Status of Employed Women in Yugoslavia / Silva Meznaric 214
13. Blue-Collar Working Women and Poverty in Hungary / Ivan Volgyes 221
14. The Rights of Women: Ideology, Policy, and Social Change in Yugoslavia / Susan L. Woodward 234
15. Social Services for Women and Childcare Facilities in Eastern Europe / Bodgan Bieczkowski 257
16. Demographic Policy and Sexual Equality: Value Conflicts and Policy Appraisal in Hungary and Romania / Robert J. McIntyre 270
17. Passage to Motherhood: Personal and Social "Management" of Reproduction in Czechoslovakia in the 1980s / Alena Heitlinger 286
V. Women's Voices
Introduction / Alfred G. Meyer 303
18. Women, Work, and Gender Equality in Poland: Reality and Its Social Perception / Renata Siemienska 305
19. The Rites of Women: Oral Poetry, Ideology, and the Socialization of Peasant Women in Contemporary Romania / Gail Kligman 323
20. The Emancipation of Women in Fact and Fiction: Changing Roles in GDR Society and Literature / Dorothy Rosenberg 344
Notes 362
Editors and Contributors 429
Index 434