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A SPECIAL ISSUE ON GENDER AND CHANGE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
 Guest Editors: Marianne A. Ferber, Lisa Giddings, and Edith Kuiper

 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.

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.

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.

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.

Please direct queries and abstracts of proposed papers to the guest editors:
Marianne Ferber (m-ferber at uiuc.edu), Lisa Giddings
(Giddings.lisa at uwlax.edu), and Edith Kuiper (kuiperedith at hotmail.com).

Final papers (after approval of abstracts) should be submitted to the
journal editor, Diana Strassmann (feministeconomics at rice.edu),
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
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: feministeconomics at rice.edu; fax:
00.1.713.348.5495).