Learning Gender after the Cold War

1 (Re)Making "Gender", (Un)Making "Eastern Europe". Introduction.- "Gender" and Feminism After State Socialism.- Brief Literature Overview.- Mapping the "East-West Misunderstanding" in Feminism.- "Gender" as a Socialisation Platform.- Doing the Sociology of a Transnational Melting Pot.- Bibliography.- Part I Transnational Mobilisations: From Discovering the "Post-socialist Other" to Professional Activism Beyond Borders.- 2 Reviving Feminist Internationalism After the Cold War.- Transatlantic Conversations.- A "Feminist Powerhouse".- "US Writers, Professors, Feminist Activists".- Eastern European Feminists "In-Between".- "Sisterhood" Versus "Difference": An Iterative Debate, a Historically Situated Outcome.- Bibliography.- 3 The "NGO-isation of Feminism" in the Making.- Feminism as a "Trademark".- Towards the "NGO Form".- Inventing and Practicing Lateral Solidarity at a Distance.- An Expert Look and an Informal Habitus.- Transnational and Trans-Sectorial Circulations.- Bibliography.- Part II The Institutional Building of International Gender Expertise.- 4 A Democracy-Making Mission.- A Young Philanthropic Foundation.- Fighting Against Communism and Training the Post-Socialist Elites.- "Expanding Rights-Based Education".- Bibliography.- 5 Aims and Scope of an International Gender-Studies Programme.- Activist Origins.- Structural Tensions.- Critical Vocation and Expert Potential.- Teaching and Research, International Transfers and Local Innovations.- Bibliography.- 6 Gender, Feminism and Philanthropic Work.- "Generating an Agenda".- Feminist Activists and Bureaucracy Employees.- Learning "Gender" and Resisting International Pedagogy.- Bibliography.- Part III A Sociography of Eastern European "Gender Pioneers".- 7 Feminist Scholars, Activists and Experts.- Shared Social Dispositions.- Established Scholars and Newcomers to Academia.- Professional Activists and Critical Bureaucrats.- Historically "Rooted" Militancy.- Bibliography.- 8 Gender Studies and the Higher Education Reform in Romania.- Liberalising the Universities After State Socialism.- A Small World of Activists and Reformers.- Interwoven Academic and Expert Positions.- Bibliography.- 9 A Counterpoint from the Former Yugoslavia.- "Gender" and Feminism in Tension.- The Ambiguous Paths of "Gender Expertise".- Legacy of State Socialism and Counter-Hegemonic Thinking.- Bibliography.- 10 Going Global. Conclusion.- "Sisters in Feminism", Brokers of "Gender", Actors of Globalisation.- The End of the "Second World" and the Afterlife of the (Red) "Woman Question".- Bibliography.- Appendix.- Bibliography.- Index.