Genders 22. Ellen E. Berry
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POSTCOMMUNISM AND THE BODY POLITIC
GENDERS
EDITORIAL BOARD
Ann Kibbey, EDITOR IN CHIEF
Kayann Short, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Amittai Aviram
Ellen Berry
Nancy Campbell
Mary Wilson Carpenter
Kate Cummings
Samir Dayal
Desley Deacon
Abouali Farmanfarmaian
Thomas Foster
Ann Gibson
Lynda Hart
Anne Herrmann
Gail Hershatter
Anne Higonnet
Annamarie Jagose
Paul Mattick
Marta Sánchez
James Saslow
Jane Shattuc
Elaine Showalter
Carol Siegel
Alan Sinfield
Cynthia Weber
Jeffrey Weeks
Jonathan Weinberg
Kath Weston
Carol Zemel
GENDERS 22
POSTCOMMUNISM AND THE BODY POLITIC
Edited by Ellen E. Berry
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Contents
Ellen E. Berry
PART ONE Gendering the Postcommunist Landscape
1. Bug Inspectors and Beauty Queens: The Problems of Translating Feminism into Russian
Beth Holmgren
2. Engendering the Russian Body Politic
Harriet Murav
Vida Penezic
4. Traditions of Patriotism, Questions of Gender: The Case of Poland
Ewa Hauser
5. Sex, Subjectivity, and Socialism: Feminist Discourses in East Germany
Katrin Sieg
6. Deciphering the Body of Memory: Writing by Former East German Women Writers
Karen Remmler
7. New Members and Organs: The Politics of Porn
Helena Goscilo
PART TWO Reforming Culture
8. Sex in the Media and the Birth of the Sex Media in Russia
Masha Gessen
9. The Underground Closet: Political and Sexual Dissidence in East European Culture
Kevin Moss
10. Ivan Soloviev’s Reflections on Eros
Mikhail Epstein
11. Russian Women Writing Alcoholism: The Sixties to the Present
Teresa Polowy
12. Gendering Cinema in Postcommunist Hungary
Catherine Portuges
Guidelines for Prospective Contributors
Introduction
Ellen E. Berry
As a contemporary global phenomenon, postmodernism has been characterized by such features as: a generalized crisis in the dominant meta-narratives of Western culture, provoked in part by challenges arising from what these narratives have historically repressed; accelerated time-space compressions; vastly novel restructurings generated by global capitalist investments, communication systems, and information networks; violent reassertions of nationalisms and ethnic fundamentalisms as well as crises in the authority of previously dominant systems including the nation-state as a sociopolitical entity; international migrations of intellectuals, ethnic groups, labor resources, religious movements, and political formations that, again, challenge older conventional boundaries of national economies, identities, and cultures; and a global homogenizing of culture coexisting with both newly emerging local traditions and diverse transcultural flows that exceed bilateral exchanges between nation-states.1