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Gapova, Elena, Al'mira Usmanova, Andrea Peto, eds. Gendernye istorii Vostochnoy
Evropy [Gendered histories from Eastern Europe]. Minsk: European Humanities
University. [2002]
This new publication on East European history stems from the 1999 international
conference "Writing Women's History and the History of Gender in Countries
in Transition" hosted by the Centre for Gender Studies at the European
Humanities University in Minsk. The volume comprises texts by 29 authors from
13 nations of Central and Western Europe and the USA and invokes that part of
East European history to which the slogan, the personal is political or the
political is personal, can be applied. Topics include oral history; memory,
trauma, narrative; imagined communities: gender and nation; the miserable and
the powerless: practices of exclusion; gender and law; contemporary history
of the gendered individual: rites of transition. Contact East View Publications
at www.eastview.com.
Popova, Kristina, Petar Vodenicharov, Snezhana Dimitrova, eds. Women and Men in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Additional Teaching Material for Secondary Schools. International Seminar for Balkan Studies and Specialisation. South Western University: Blagoevgrad, 2002. Historians from Turkey, Slovenia, Hungary, Romania, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia all contributed to this collection. Supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they compiled sources, photos, and statistics to offer material for teaching the history of gender relations in South Eastern Europe. The book is second in a series launched by a st udy of the history of childhood -- Childhood in the Past 19th and 20th Century. Additional Teaching Material for Secondary Schools, eds. Milan Ristovic, Dubravka Stojanovic. Belgrad: Association for Social History, 2001.
The more recent anthology covers ten topics: Love and Marriage in Patriarchal Society; the Body; Education; the Ideal Woman; Love and Marriage in Bourgeois Society; Work of Men; Work of Women; Leisure and Beauty in Modern Times; Politics and Emancipation; Love and Marriage in Communist Society. The aim was to encourage the students to seek a better understanding of the 'Other' if of opposite gender, of different age or nation. Originally in English, the book has been translated into the eight languages of the collaborating countries with the hope that it will reach history teachers and foster common knowledge, better understanding and co-operation among the new generations of South East Europe. For details: Daniela Grabe, University of Graz, Department of South European History, daniela.grabe@uni-graz.at, A- 8010, Graz, Mozartgasse 3. Fax 43-316-380 9735.
To Look At Life Through Women's Eyes: Women's Oral Histories From the Former
Soviet Union. Open Society Institute Network Women's Program, New York, 2002.
The book was prepared with the support of the Open Society Institute Network
Women's Program, as part of its Women's Oral History Program. Part of a larger
initiative on gender and education, the women's oral history program was developed
to extend NWP's activities in women's and gender history. To
train interested researchers in countries where feminist approaches to oral
history were unknown, the Network Women's Program, in collaboration with the
Soros Foundation - Kyrgyzstan sponsored a women's oral history workshop in July
2001 for 20 scholars (from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Mongolia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan). An international team of scholars
led the workshop: Andrea Peto (Hungary), Elena Mescherkina (Russia), Hande Birkalan
(Turkey), Marfua Tokhtahodjeva (Uzbekistan), Marianne Kemp and Debra Schultz
(United States) helped the participants to elaborate their own projects. The
volume consists of Women's Stories about Ethnicity by Ludmila V. Miagkaya (Tajikistan),
Elmira B. Arapova Erkeaim Jorobekova (Kyrgyztan), Ketevan Kobaladze, Tsisana
Goderdzishvili, Marina Tabukashvili (Georgia), and Women's Stories about Transition
by Janyl K. Bokontayeva (Kyrgyztan), Raya Osmonalieva (Kyrgyzstan), Lala Sarieva
(Azerbaijan), and Women's Stories about Aging by Galina Datsiuk (Ukraine), Svetlana
Shakirova (Kazakhstan), Novikova Elvira (Russia), Almaz Kadyrova, Marfua Saidumarovna
Tocktahodjaeva (Uzbekistan) and Women's Stories about Islam by Sabirova Guzel
(Russia) and Women's Stories about Military Conflicts by Nargis S. Halimova
(Tajikistan), Olga A. Rzayeva (Azerbaijan) and Women's Stories about Emotions
by Bakhriniso Kabilova (Tajikistan). This volume of the women's oral history
project which was published for the AWID 9th International Forum in English
and in Russian is an useful teaching tool for promoting women's oral history
in the region.
-Compiled by Andrea Peto