Teresa Kulawik and Zhanna Kravchenko, "Borderlands in European Gender Studies: Beyond the East-West Frontier" (Routledge, 2020)
New Books in Eastern European Studies
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What Does Feminist Theory Have to Say About Eastern Europe?
What is considered feminist theory is mostly anglo american feminist theory of producedin big universities in the eighties and nineties. In eastern europe, feminism was adapted as part of westernization,. Feminist scholars in eastern europe accepted this framework as a kind of welcome alibi not to deal with the roots of a feminist theory in marxism and inradical thought. And i address how that resonated, or maybe failed to resignate, in easterneurope e., how we felt that we were joining a conversation that was not really designed to have us join er.
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