call for submissions: gender and change in central and eastern europe

[Györgyi TÓTH]

>A SPECIAL ISSUE ON GENDER AND CHANGE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
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>Guest Editors
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>Marianne A. Ferber, Lisa Giddings, and Edith Kuiper
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>Feminist Economics invites submissions of papers, short discussions, and
>book reviews for a special issue on "Gender and Change in Central and
>Eastern Europe" to be published in March 2007. The deadline for
>submissions of abstracts (no more than 500 words) is 1 April 2004.
>Completed manuscripts of 5000-7000 words are due 1 November 2004, although
>we would appreciate earlier submissions of both abstracts and articles.
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>Since the collapse of the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe
>(CEE) in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union two years later,
>these economies have undergone a major transition. The shift toward market
>economies has had a considerable impact on the welfare of women and men.
>Most of these countries have experienced increased unemployment, poorer
>working conditions, reduced pensions, and cuts in public spending on
>health and childcare. The changes have disproportionately affected women,
>although the degree to which this is true differs substantially among the
>various countries.
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>Recent developments in this region are of special interest to feminist
>economists, for many reasons. How these countries conceptualize gender,
>and the family policies they have developed -- along with the effects of
>these policies -- are of great interest to feminists. Careful analysis of
>the transition process in these countries will aid our understanding of
>the role of economic institutions in shaping gender roles and determining
>the well being of women. Further, the situation is of special interest at
>this time because of the impending expansion of the European Union; it is
>expected that the CEE countries seeking to join the EU will experience
>pressure to develop policies that enhance gender mainstreaming and gender
>equity.
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>The editors invite both established and young scholars, especially those
>living and working in CEE countries, to submit abstracts for this upcoming
>special issue. Essays may be theoretical or empirical, focus on the labor
>market or the household, and concentrate on individual countries or on
>cross-country comparisons.
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>Please direct queries and abstracts of proposed papers to the guest
>editors:  Marianne Ferber (<mailto:m-ferber at uiuc.edu>m-ferber at uiuc.edu),
>Lisa Giddings (<mailto:Giddings.lisa at uwlax.edu>Giddings.lisa at uwlax.edu),
>and Edith Kuiper (<mailto:Kuiperedith at hotmail.com>kuiperedith at hotmail.com).
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>Final papers (after approval of abstracts) should be submitted to the
>journal editor, Diana Strassmann
>(<mailto:feministeconomics at rice.edu>feministeconomics at rice.edu),
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>and should conform to the journal's editorial policies, style guidelines,
>and submission instructions. Submission guidelines appear in every issue
>of the journal and are available on the journal web site at
><http://www.feministeconomics.org/>www.feministeconomics.org, or you may
>request them by writing to: Diana Strassmann, Editor, Feminist Economics,
>MS-9, Rice University, P. O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892 USA;
>(e-mail: <mailto:feministeconomics at rice.edu>feministeconomics at rice.edu;
>fax: 00.1.713.348.5495).
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