| | TABLE OF CONTENTS: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
INTRODUCTION Susan Gal and Gail Kligman 3
PART ONE: REPRODUCTION AS POLITICS 21
CHAPTER 1 Between Ideology, Politics, and Common Sense: The Discourse of Reproductive Rights in Poland - Eleonora Zielinska 23
CHAPTER 2 Reproductive Policies in the Czech and Slovak Republics - Sharon L. Wolchik 58
CHAPTER 3 Talking about Women and Wombs: The Discourse of Abortion and Reproductive Rights in the G.D.R. during and after the Wende - Eva Maleck-Lewy and Myra Marx Ferree 92
CHAPTER 4 Birth Strike in the New Federal States: Is Sterilization an Act of Resistance? - Irene Dolling, Daphne Hahn, and Sylka Scholz 118
PART TWO: GENDER RELATIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE 149
CHAPTER 5 Changing Images of Identity in Poland: From the Self-Sacrificing to the Self-Investing Woman? - Mira Marody andAnna Giza-Poleszczuk 151
CHAPTER 6 Women's Life Trajectories and Class Formation in Hungary - Katalin Kovacs and Monika Varadi 176
CHAPTER 7 From Informal Labor to Paid Occupations: Marketization from below in Hungarian Women's Work - Julia Szalai 200
CHAPTER 8 Women's Sexuality and Reproductive Behavior in Post-Ceausescu Romania: A Psychological Approach - Adriana Baban 225
PART THREE: ARENAS OF POLITICAL ACTION: STRUGGLES FOR REPRESENTATION 257
CHAPTER 9 New Gender Relations in Poland in the 1990s - Malgorzata Fuszara 259
CHAPTER 10 New Parliament, Old Discourse? The Parental Leave Debate in Hungary - Joanna Goven 286
CHAPTER 11 Women's NGOs in Romania - Laura Grunberg 307
CHAPTER 12 Women's Problems, Women's Discourses in Bulgaria - Krassimira Daskalova 370
CHAPTER 13 Belgrade's SOS Hotline for Women and Children Victims of Violence: A Report - Zorica Mrsevic 370
CHAPTER 14 Media Representations of Men and Women in Times of War and Crisis: The Case of Serbia - Jasmina Lukic 393
CONCLUSION Susan Gal and Gail Kligman 424
CONTRIBUTORS 427
INDEX 429
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