in:
The European journal of women's studies
London [u.a.]:
1998
,
437 - 452 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Petkova, Bianca; Griffin, Chris |
| In: | The European journal of women's studies |
| Jahr: | 1998 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| It is widely held, particularly in the West, that Communist ideologies and practices were oppressive and that under Communism people could not speak freely.This article is concerned with old and new silences in relation to women inscribed in the gendered discourses circulating in Eastern Europe now. After the changes in Eastern Europe, gendered discourses made new differentiations, often ostensibly reversing Communist constuctions of what exactly it is that makes a "true" woman. This article uses examples from autobiographical interviews with Bulgarian women to argue that new gendered discourses about the nature of womanhood have ideological effects in silencing (and hence also oppressing) women. The article illustrates how discourses about what constitutes appropriate work for women devalue and obscure how much and waht women do. We also explore how new (Western European) discourses about market economy, freedom of choice, commercialism, and sor forth are tied up with constructions of femininity, so that it becomes difficult to speak about new social inequalities and restrictions on women's lives. Constructions of womanhood today fit nicely with the needs of emerging new forms of patriarchal campitalism in the country | |
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