[Gesth-l] CFP

[Nora Sellei]

Von: Catherine Baker <cbakertw1 at googlemail.com>
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Gesendet: 10:54 Montag, 2.September 2013
Betreff: Call for papers: Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (edited volume)


Call for papers, edited volume
*Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union*
Edited by Catherine Baker

This call for papers seeks contributors to an edited volume (*c*. 80,000
words) on the gendered histories of eastern Europe and the former Soviet
Union during the twentieth century, aimed primarily at an
undergraduate/taught postgraduate readership. Drawing on current research
into a broad range of societies and experiences within the
 scope of the
volume, it aims to explore whether or how far the course of the twentieth
century has made it possible to speak of a common history of gender in this
part of the world. Since the early 1900s, the region has witnessed the
collapse of multinational empires into nation-states; the human devastation
and divided legacies left by the Second World War and the Holocaust; the
transformation of society and the economy under Communist power, and the
divided legacies that this too has left behind; the break-up of the Warsaw
Pact bloc and the remaining federations into nation-states that were to be
remade in the image of a democratic, free-market ideal. Yet these grand
narratives of transformation and transition risk obscuring divergences and
specificities that historians of gender may also need to take into account.

Contributions may focus on one country or may have a broader comparative
scope, but all
 proposals should indicate how the material can contribute to
an understanding of the region as a whole. The coverage of the volume will
be balanced across the time frame of the twentieth century and the region
under consideration. Proposals are welcome regarding any part of the east
European region or the former USSR. A major UK publisher has expressed
interest in publishing the volume as a paperback, subject to successful
completion of their review process.

Aspects that might be discussed within essays include, but are not limited
to:

   -  Borderlands and the question of ‘national indifference’
   - Childhood and youth
   - The Communist revolutions and takeovers
   - Communist parties in power
   - Consumption, the home and everyday life under state socialism
   - Feminism and other activist movements
   - Interactions
 between the region and the rest of the world, including
   the Global South
   - Labour, postsocialism and neoliberalism
   - Oral history and memory
   - Popular culture and the media
   - Refugees and humanitarian relief
   - Reproductive and sexual politics
   - Queer and trans* histories
   - Security and surveillance
   - Socialist approaches to gender in theory and practice
   - War and the military, including female participation on the front line
   - War memory and commemoration
   - Intersections of gender with other power relationships

Please send an abstract of 300–500 words to Catherine Baker (University of
Hull) at cbakertw1 at googlemail.com by Friday 13 October 2013. Proposals will
be
 reviewed immediately and notification will be made by the end of October
2013. Draft papers are likely to be due in July 2014. As part of preparing
the book I hope to organise related conference panels e.g. at ASEEES in
November 2014, although being able to attend a conference is not a
requirement for taking part.

 
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