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Gender and State in Postcommunist Societies: Introduction

This issue focuses on gender state and society and the dynamics of change in the post-communist era. Like other variants of historical institutionalism welfare regime theory has stressed the path-dependent character of change but admits the possibility that "major shocks" may open new trajectories. As Esping-Andersen himself recognized the stresses and strains of transition have rendered post-communist societies a veritable "laboratory of experimentation." A key question is what has been the direction of change? Have these post-communist states favoured neo-liberalism bringing in train the commodification of women similar to the pattern found in Canada and the United States or have they been drawn to the more egalitarian gender regime emergent in the European Union? There is a third possibility - variously labeled maternalism re-familialization or neofamilialism - all of which entail inducement for women to embrace the role of domestic caregiver. (excerpt)