Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 The Legacy of the Pre-1945 Period
5. The Working Woman in the Struggle towards Emancipation 23
6. To the Enemies of Women’s Equality 35
7. The Grievances of Feminism under the Proletarian Dictatorship 42
8. On Sexuality, Prostitution, and Feminism 52
9. On Feminism 65
10. Why Must Women Elect Women to Parliament? 72
11. The Fall of Male Civilization 79
12. The Roots of Changing Sexual Mores 87
13. The Woman in Contemporary Society 98
14. 2 Women and War
15. The New Feminism 111
16. Two Poems by a Partizanka 120
17. Report on Women in the People’s Liberation Struggle 131
18. Fallen in Battle: Olga Bancic 141
19. A Female Poetic Voice against Totalitarianism and War 149
20. Antiwar Activism after Yugoslavia 159
21. What Is Our Memory? 168
22. 3 Ideologies of Women’s Emancipation
23. About March 8th and Feminism 183
24. Women in Politics 190
25. Women in Politics 200
26. The Right to Motherhood 208
27. Paper Delivered at the Plenary Meeting of the Main Board of the League of Women 215
28. On Lifting Veils of Muslim Women 222
29. The Consequences of Emancipation? 235
30. The Women’s Antifascist Front as a Potential Factor in the Process of Cultural Change 243
31. Neofeminism and the Socialist Alternative 255
32. The Women of Kosovo in the Period of Socialist Construction 267
33. 4 The International Aspects of Women’s Rights
34. The First German Women’s Delegation to Stockholm 277
35. Call of the Tukums District Female Activists to District Women on the Decisions of the World Congress of Women in Copenhagen 287
36. The Woman’s Position in the Contemporary World 294
37. Connections to Distant Women through Travelogues 307
38. Songs by a Yugoslav Romani Vocal Icon 316
39. On the Question of Women’s Social Position in the Contemporary World 323
40. An Interview about Prehistoric Matriarchy 334
41. Statement at the Nairobi Conference 342
42. 5 Politicizing Motherhood (and Fatherhood)
43. Mother and Child Day 353
44. The Hopes and Fears of Rural Women 360
45. Son 371
46. Maternity in Ukrainian Dissent 376
47. Soviet Women—Active Builders of Communism 383
48. Two Movies on the Lives of Women Factory Workers 393
49. A Spoken World 402
50. Women, Gender, and the Use of Time 414
51. 6 Time Budgets and Double Burden
52. Promoting the Marxist Conception of the Woman Question 431
53. The Professional Work of Women and the Family 441
54. Let’s Cancel the Second Shift 448
55. Two Key Questions 456
56. The Working Class and Woman’s Emancipation in Socialism 467
57. Time Budgets and the Double Burden 476
58. Betrayal 484
59. 7 Violence against Women and Gender-Based Violence
60. Feminist Marxism and Violence against Women 493
61. Our critique of the legal concept of rape 504
62. Domestic Violence 512
63. Feminism and Social Work 522
64. 8 Women in Politics
65. Christmas Troubles 537
66. Eight Years of Equality and Happiness 544
67. Ahead of the Elections 553
68. On the Social Condition of Women 561
69. Women in History 571
70. To the Presidium of the 9th Extraordinary Congress of the Polish United Workers’ Party 582
71. Without Women, There Is No State 589
72. 9 Reproductive Rights and Demography
73. Proposal on the Criteria of Abortion Permissibility 603
74. Petition for the Protection of the Freedom of Abortion 610
75. Freedom to Choose 618
76. The Diary of a Woman in Labor 630
77. Children’s Crusade 643
78. Abortion, Women, and Politics 651
79. The Circumstances of a Home Birth Case 664
80. 10 Health and the Body
81. Performance Art and Marginalization 675
82. Is a Woman a Human Being? 682
83. I Am a Baba (Selected Poems) 688
84. Sweet Violence—Mass Media and Feminist Art in Yugoslavia 696
85. Alternatives to Psychiatry 703
86. 11 Sexuality
87. Family Structure and Communism 715
88. Sexology—A Belated Conversation 727
89. Women and the Sexual Revolution 736
90. Sexology and Sexual Education 749
91. “I Am the First Woman Writer of Peasant Origin in Hungary” 759
92. Isn’t Pornography Cynical? 770
93. The Slovenian Lesbian Movement 782
94. Polish Lesbian Initiatives: The Violet Pulse, Fury the First 793
95. 12 Debating “Western” Feminisms
96. Equality or Liberation 803
97. The Position of Women: Immediate Tasks and Neglected Aspects 813
98. Issues for a Fruitful Dialogue between Feminism and Marxism 822
99. Sex and Gender—Categories of the Social Organization of Sexuality 833
100. Conversation about the Second Sex 843
101. Feminism and the Woman Question at the Time of Transition 851
102. Feminism during Political Transformation 870
103. 13 Dissidence
104. Women and the Dissident Movement in Soviet Ukraine 887
105. Innocence (A Poem From the Ilegalja Movement) 904
106. The Position of Women in the Belarusian Diaspora 907
107. … without context… How Is Feminism Doing in Slovakia? 929
108. The Country Just Across the Way 939
109. 14 Transitions 950
110. The Activist of the Avant-Garde 951
111. Making Gypsiness Bearable 962
112. Police and Cooking Recipes. Yugoslav Feminism’s Precarious Solidarity with Kosovo 971
113. “Our Skin.” Women about the Fall of 1990 981
114. Liberal Feminism on Eastern Europe in the Aftermath of Communism 992
115. A Liberal History of the Woman Question in the Czech Lands 1011
116. Party Platform for the 1996 Parliamentary Elections 1025
117. The Romani Women’s Movement in Romania 1036
118. Contributors 1051
119. Index 1059