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This book examines women’s activism in and beyond Central and Eastern Europe and transnationally within and across different historical periods, political regimes, and scales of activism. The authors explore the wide range of activist agendas, repertoires, and forums in which women sought to advocate for their gender and labour interests. Women were engaged in trade unions, women-only organizations, state institutions, and international and intellectual networks, and were active on the shopfloor. Rectifying geopolitical and thematic imbalances in labour and gender history, this volume is a valuable resource for scholars and students of women’s activism, social movements, political and intellectual history, and transnationalism. Contributors are: Eloisa Betti, Masha Bratishcheva, Jan A. Burek, Selin Çağatay, Daria Dyakonova, Mátyás Erdélyi, Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner, Eric Fure-Slocum, Alexandra Ghiț, Olga Gnydiuk, Maren Hachmeister, Veronika Helfert, Natalia Jarska, Marie Láníková, Ivelina Masheva, Jean-Pierre Liotard-Vogt, Denisa Nešťáková, Sophia Polek, Zhanna Popova, Büşra Satı, Masha Shpolberg, Georg Spitaler, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, Johanna Wolf and Susan Zimmermann.

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Selin Çağatay, Ph.D. (2016), is a postdoctoral researcher at Central European University. She studies past and present gender politics and equality struggles. Her publications include Feminist and LGBTI+ activism in Russia, Scandinavia, and Turkey: Transnationalizing Spaces of Resistance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) (co-authored). Alexandra Ghiț, Ph.D. (2020), is a postdoctoral researcher at Central European University. Her research interests include women's labour history (focusing on twentieth-century Eastern Europe and activism in the tobacco industry), social policy history and the social history of state socialisms. Olga Gnydiuk, Ph.D. (2018), is a postdoctoral researcher at Central European University. She studies women’s trade union activism and the gendered welfare state, and has published on displaced children, labour politics and women’s work in Ukraine in the post-1945 period. Veronika Helfert, Ph.D. (2018), is a postdoctoral researcher at Central European University. She studies women’s activism in Austria and transnationally. She published Women, stand up! A women’s and gender history of the Austrian revolution and council movement, 1916–1924 (in German) (Unipress, 2021). Ivelina Masheva, Ph.D. (2015), is a researcher at Central European University and at the Institute for Historical Studies – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She co-edited Commercial Law in Southeastern Europe: Legislation and Jurisdiction from Tanzimat Times until the Eve of the Great War (Böhlau, 2022). Zhanna Popova, Ph.D. (2019), is a postdoctoral researcher at the ZARAH project at Central European University, where she works on women’s labour activism in the lands of Polish partition, interwar Poland, and internationally. Jelena Tešija, MA (2014), is a doctoral researcher at Central European University. In her doctoral project, she examines the history of women’s activism in the co-operative movement in and beyond the Yugoslav lands. She has studied women organizing in Socialist Yugoslavia. Eszter Varsa, Ph.D. (2011), is a postdoctoral researcher at Central European University. She studies the history of welfare and agrarian socialism. She published Protected Children, Regulated Mothers: Gender and the “Gypsy Question” in State Care in Postwar Hungary, 1949-1956 (CEU Press, 2021). Susan Zimmermann, Ph.D. (1993), is a Professor at Central European University. She published Women’s politics and men’s trade unionism. International gender politics, female IFTU-trade unionists and the labor and women’s movements of the interwar period (in German) (Löcker Verlag, 2021).

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