Gender, sexuality, and disability in postsocialist Central-Eastern Europe

Teodor Mladenov

Gender, sexuality, and disability in postsocialist Central-Eastern Europe

Teodor Mladenov (Lead / Corresponding author)

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This chapter discusses the combined impact of state socialist legacies and postsocialist neoliberal transformations on the intersections of gender, sexuality, and disability in present day Central-Eastern Europe (CEE). Using a critical and intersectional perspective, it is argued that elements of the state socialist heritage have interacted with features of postsocialist neoliberalization to enhance the oppression of women, homosexual, and disabled people in CEE. Emphasizing continuity rather than historical rupture, the main part of the analysis looks at the ways in which state socialist productivism, biological reductionism, and institutional confinement have been modified (rather than negated) by welfare state retrenchment, retraditionalization of society, and creeping marketization in the aftermath of 1989. The chapter also examines how individuals and communities have actively responded to and resisted resultant oppressions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Routledge Handbook of Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Editors	Mara Lazda, Katalin Fabian, Janet Elise Johnson
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	51
Pages	531-539
Number of pages	9
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9781138347762
ISBN (Print)	9781138347755
Publication status	Published - 26 Jul 2021

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Name	Routledge International Handbooks

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Gender, sexuality, and disability in postsocialist Central-Eastern Europe. / Mladenov, Teodor (Lead / Corresponding author).
The Routledge Handbook of Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia. ed. / Mara Lazda; Katalin Fabian; Janet Elise Johnson. 1. ed. London: Routledge, 2021. p. 531-539 (Routledge International Handbooks).

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