Table of Contents

PART I: WOMEN AND THE STATE After State Socialism 1.Lin Chun -- Finding a Language: Feminism and Women's Movements in Contemporary China 2. Peggy Watson -- Civil Society and the Politics of Difference in Eastern Europe 3. Susan Gal -- Feminism and Civil Society 4. Myra Marx Ferree-- German Unification and Feminist Identity 5. Hana Havelkov6~ -- Transitory and Persistent Differences: Feminism East and West 6. Djurdja Knezevic -- Affective Nationalism 7. Svetlana Slapsak -- Nationalist and Women's Discourse in Post-Yugoslavia 8. Renate Salecl -- The Postsocialist Moral Majority; Women's Movements in Eastern and Central Europe 9. Sabine Lang -- The NGOization of Feminism 10.Eva Maleck-Lewy -- The East German Women's Movement after Unification 11. Malgorzata Fuszara -- Women's Movements in Poland 12. Milica Antic' Gaber -- Politics in Transition 13. Andrea Pet4~2~ -- Hungarian Women in Politics 14. Krassimira Daskalova -- The Women's Movement in Bulgaria after Communism 15. Ann Snitow -- Response PART II: ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENTS The Politics of Development 16. Bina Agarwal -- Gender Perspectives on Environmental Action: Issues of Equity, Agency, and Participation 17. Tsehai Berhane-Selasie -- The Politics of Womanhood in Occupational Inequality The Politics of Enviromentalism 18. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing -- Transitions as Translations 19. Yaakov Garb -- Lost in Translation: Toward a Feminist Account of Chipko 20. Nol Sturgeon -- Strategic Environmentalisms PART III: RACE AND DIFFERENCE 21. Evelynn M. Hammonds -- When the Margin is the Center: African-American Feminism(s) and Difference 22. Jacklyn Cock -- Women in South Africa's Transition to Democracy 23. Mamphela Ramphele -- Whither Feminism PART IV: WOMEN'S STUDIES/GENDER STUDIES 24. Zakia Pathak -- Defamiliarizing Practices: The Scene of Feminist Pedagogy 25. Rosi Braidotti -- Uneasy Transitions: Women's Studies in the European Union 26. Anastasia Posadsakya-Vanderbeck -- On the Threshold of the Classroom: Dilemmas for Post-Soviet Russian Feminism 27. Svetlana V. Kupryashkina -- The Limits of Research: Women's Studies in Ukraine 28. Afsaneh Najmabadi -- Feminisms in an Islamic Republic 29. Alice Kessler-Harris -- Comparative Perspectives

About the Author

Joan W. Scott is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and co-editor of Feminists Theorize the Political (Routledge 1992). Cora Kaplan is Professor of English at Southampton University and author of Sea Changes: Essays on Cultureand Feminism (1986). Debra Keates is a contributor to TheDictionary of Feminism and Psychoanalysis.