Women in power in post-communist parliaments
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Women in power in post-communist parliaments
Woodrow Wilson Center Press , Indiana University Press, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Women in Power in Post-Communist Parliaments examines the life and work of women who have reached positions of political power after the end of communism in Europe. It explores the roles they have adopted, the relationships they have cultivated, and the agendas they have pursued. Much of the literature on women in post-Communist states has focused on one or two countries. This volume treats the issues comparatively, in six countries-the Czech Republic, Germany (with a focus on the former GDR), Slovenia, Bulgaria, Poland, and Russia. It also includes interviews with and written statements by the very "women in power" discussed in the first half of the book, giving voice to their common and divergent experiences as political actors within an environment of stormy economies and new foreign engagements, particularly with the European Union.
Table of Contents
I Introduction
Marilyn Rueschemeyer and Sharon L. Wolchik
PART ONE
II Women in the Russian Duma
Linda J. Cook and Carol Nechemias
III Is There a Women's Lobby in the Polish Parliament: Progress and Current Difficulties
Renata Siemienska
IV Women in the Slovene Parliament: Working toward a Critical Mass
Milica Antic Gaber
V Women in Power in the Czech Republic: Problems and Prospects
Sharon L. Wolchik
VI East German Women in the Unified German Parliament
Marilyn Rueschemeyer
VII Reflections on the Return of the King: Women in the
Bulgarian Parliament
Karen Ghodsee
PART TWO
VIII Conversations with Russian Parliamentarians
Linda J. Cook and Carol Nechemias
IX The Perspective of the Head of the Parliamentary Women's Group:
Senator Dorota Kempka Speaks with Agnieszka Majcher
X A Specialist in Culture in the Slovene Parliament
Majda Sirca
XI Negotiating the Czech Parliament
Anna Curdova
XII From the German Democratic Republic to the European Parliament
Constanze Krehl
XIII Entering the Bulgarian Parliament
Kina Andreeva
XIV Conclusion
Marilyn Rueschemeyer and Sharon L. Wolchik
Selected Bibliography
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