This book considers women's access to formal positions of powers in the newly formed democracies of post communist Europe. While acknowledging the relevance of

This book examines the life and work of women who have reached positions of political power after the end of communism in Europe. It explores the roles they hav

This work is a critical intervention into the archive of female identity; it reflects on the ways in which the Central and Eastern European female ideal was con

In the wake of communism’s decline, women’s concerns had become increasingly important in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Yet most discussions o

The representation of women in parliament is a subject of extensive research and a focus for political action in the last decade. The wide variation in women's