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<DIV>Call for papers</DIV>
<DIV>Deadline: 30 September 2013</DIV>
<DIV>Special issue: 25 years later: The New Europe</DIV>
<DIV>Editors: Kornelia Slavova and Barbara Einhorn</DIV>
<DIV>What is the ‘New Europe’? Does it describe more accurately the new member
states of the EU or has it simply replaced the label the ‘Other Europe’ that
used to designate the countries of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold
War? Until now, this term has suggested a hierarchy of unequal partners,
constructed through binaries such as: ‘East’ and ‘West’; the EU and the
‘others’, the ‘bordering’ or ‘candidate’ countries; the established versus the
‘new’ and somehow – in this perception – ‘unfinished’ democracies; the
supposedly successful market economies versus those economies on the periphery –
whether that be to the east or to the south – which are perceived as either
struggling or as liabilities, as somehow responsible for the crisis in the
eurozone. This special issue suggests that the term ‘New Europe’ could signal a
context in which we cease to conceptualise Europe as a relationship of masters
and subalterns, but rather as a single entity or at least a project of desire
for inclusivity, in which all European countries participate on an equal
footing.</DIV>
<DIV>Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 the political, economic, and
cultural landscapes in both former communist states in Central and Eastern
Europe and Europe as a whole have been radically transformed, not least due to
the persistent dominance of unhelpful neo-liberal conceptions of the state as
problematic, a constraint on enterprise and creativity, while the unfettered
market is conceived of as an unmitigated good. This special issue of The
European Journal of Women’s Studies explores the gendered consequences of the
social, political and cultural transformations within the context of the overall
crisis currently affecting Europe as a whole.</DIV>
<DIV>Over the past 25 years women in both Central and Eastern Europe, and in
‘Western’ (Northern and Southern) Europe, have shown incredible survival skills
in times of social instability. However, traditional notions of masculinity and
male-dominated economic sectors have also been decimated. Yet while there have
been shifts in gender roles and imaginings, they have not substantially altered
the imbalances in gender relations as relations of power. Moreover, feminism
continues to be met with suspicion and resistance in the former Soviet bloc,
while there is a considerable ‘backlash’ against feminist political projects in
Western Europe. What have women lost and what have they gained in the last two
and a half decades of historic changes? How have notions of masculinity and
femininity changed? In what ways has the diminished role of state and public
social provision affected cultural and social perceptions, impacted on gender
relations at the societal, family and personal level?</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Prof. Dr.
habil. Andrea
Peto<BR><BR>http://www.ceu.hu/profiles/faculty/andrea_peto<BR>Papers available
at: http://ceu.academia.edu/AndreaPeto</DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>