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Gazing at Welfare, Gender and Agency in Post-socialist Countries by Maija Jäppinen, Meri Kulmala and Aino Saarinen, Maija Jappinen (editor), Meri Kulmala (editor), Aino Saarinen (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Gazing at Welfare, Gender and Agency in Post-socialist Countries about?

The volume presents a new and unique view of welfare in Russia and Eastern European countries from an intersectional perspective of welfare, gender and agency. Since the collapse of socialism, the welfare structures of the post-socialist states have experienced large and rapid changes. The discussions on the reforming welfare models serve as the integrating theme for the volume. The authors discuss past and current developments and make comparisons in time and space between the early 1990s and late 2000s and between post-socialist and transitional countries. Welfare and political democratization are analyzed on the one hand as structures and processes and on the other hand as cultural meanings and through agency, which all are strongly gendered. Macro-level analyses and in-depth case studies by scholars from different countries and disciplines provide a wide and multilayered picture of welfare developments and gendered practices of social services, caregiving and civic activism, among others. Special attention is given to research methodologies, particularly on fieldwork and micro-level understanding of the related topics. The contributors come from social and political sciences an

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Author

Maija Jäppinen, Meri Kulmala and Aino Saarinen, Maija Jappinen (editor), Meri Kulmala (editor), Aino Saarinen (editor)

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781443826136

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Social_sciences