Transitions: January 1998 issue

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 98 12:00:55 -0500
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Transitions: January 1998 issue


Most of materials in the January 1998 issue of Transitions (Vol.5, No.1) are
devoted to women's issues. The content: 

- From the editor: His and hers, ours and theirs, by Michael T.Kaufman

- Letters

- Notes from along the way: Russia, Transcaucasia and Central Asia, Eastren
Europe, Central Europe, Southeastren Europe

- In their own words: Czech Republic: Why aren't they happy?, Serbia:
Another mass murderer confesses; Azerbajian: "Amost nobody addresses me
directly" (interview with former President Abulfaz Elchibey)

- Unemployed unequally?, by Michael Wyzan (on unemployment in Eastern
Central Europe)

- "Only a free woman can raise a free person" (How is your life different
from your mother's life? How do you hope your daughter's life will be
different from yours? Random answers to those questions offer a glimpse of
life in transition)

- What is gender?, by Joanna Regulska and Mindy Jane Roseman

- Why we resist Western-style feminism, by Jirina Siklova

- An identity of one's own, by Elena Chinyaeva

- Teacher, doctor, low wage-earner, by Jeremy Druker (As men rise to higher
positions, women remain stick in the lowest-paying professions) 

- What we learned from Western feminists, by Slavenka Drakulic

- Looking East, looking West, by Shana Penn (language, funding, and fears of
'imperialist' tendencies hinder, but don't halt, an exchange of information
between women East and West)

- The unappreciated mothers of civil society, by Marina Liborakina (the
nonprofit sector shows signs of turning into a female ghetto of low pay and
little power...)

- Russia meets its matriarchs, by Amy Caiazza (about the Committee of
Soldiers' Mothers in Russia) 

- The unrepresented sex, by Jeremy Druker (Women politicians are scarce in
Central and Eastern Europe, but in some older democracies they are even
scarcer)

- A rare female voice,  Elena Chinyaeva's interview with Tatyana Nesterenko,
member of Russian State Duma

- In the wake of war, a fight for survival, by Kate Galbraith (With much of
its male population either dead or missing after more thhan three yaers of
war, Bosnia-Herzegovina suffers from a wide gender gap that has left its
women struggling to cope economically and emotionally)

- Sold into the sex trade, by Gillian Caldwell

- National dreams and domestic goddesses, by Elena Gapova (New nations, in
their search for an identity, have found an icon for their pedestals: he
mother...)

- Still willing to grin and bear it, by Judit Acsady (Privately, many women
are dissatisfied with their portrayal in the media and the stereotypical
gender roles society still largely demands of them...) 

- Ukrainian party politics gets a boost, by Oleg Varfolomeyev (Ukrainian
party politics has little to do with ideology and everything to do competing
interest groups and personal rivalries)

- Mixing business and politics in Transcarpathia, by Tom Warner (Far from
the mainstream of Ukrainian politics, an enterprising young mayor is
challenging the old order...) 

- Cartoons 

- Books: Uniting many sisters, by Hana Havelkova; Publications about women

- Point-Counter-Point: Would legalizing prostitution curb the trafficking of
women? Yes, by Gillian Caldwell - No, by Donna M.Hughes

- Media watch: Croatia, Albania

- Cityscape: Wandering through Warsaw, by Marek Nowakowski
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