Aspasia
The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History
Aims & Scope
Aspasia is an international peer-reviewed yearbook dedicated to publishing the best new scholarship in women’s and gender history of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (CESEE). This region includes the territory currently occupied by the countries of Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, and Ukraine; as well as Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
Aspasia defines gender as an organizing principle of social relationships that encompasses and produces women and men, femininities and masculinities. In addition, the yearbook emphasizes research that examines the intersection of gender with othercategories of social organization―class, ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, religion, and others―and that illuminates the complicated relationship between gender as cultural construct and material reality. It also explores and advances transnational aspects of women’s and gender histories within, to, and from CESEE. This includes the ways in which gendered discourses have functioned in broader social-economic, political, and cultural processes and exchanges.
Aspasia further aims to bring to a larger audience research by scholars working in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe itself and to serve as a forum for the comparative analysis of women’s history and gender across all parts of Europe.
Read the founding statement from the first issue of Aspasia here.
Each volume of Aspasia contains: (1) an article section that is sometimes thematic; (2) a discussion Forum (whose topic in most cases will be related to that of the central theme of the volume); (3) and book reviews and essays. In keeping with the current scholarly debates, in conversation with scholars from all over the world, Aspasia will bring to an international audience innovative research and historical analyses. This important innovative publication not only offers valuable materials for easy integration in the teaching of graduate and undergraduate courses on gender, but also provides up-to-date information and analyses on books that focus on women and gender, in particular those published in the languages of this area, which otherwise rarely receive attention in English-language history journals.
Subjects: History, Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Studies, Gender Studies, Politics
Aspasia Vol. 6, 2012
Theme Section
From West to East: International Women’s Day, the First Decade
Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild
Together and Apart: Polish Women’s Rights Activists and the Beginnings of International Women’s Day Around 1911
Iwona Dadej and Angelique Leszczawski-Schwerk
The Different Faces of a Celebration: The Greek Course of International Women’s Day, 1924–2010
Angelika Psarra
General Articles
The Soviet Solution for Women in Clara Zetkin’s Journal Die Kommunistische Fraueninternationale, 1921–1925
Liberty P. Sproat
Gender and Culture in the Turkish Province: The Observations of a Russian Woman Traveler (1868)
Evguenia Davidova
The “Myth of the War Experience” and Russian Wartime Nursing during World War I
Laurie Stoff
The Source
Kak v revoliutsionnoe vremia Vserossiiskaia Liga Ravnopraviia Zhenshchin dobilas’ izbiratel’nykh prav dlia russkikh zhenshchin (How in the revolutionary time the All-Russian League for Women’s Equal Rights won suffrage for Russian women)
Forum
CLIO ON THE MARGINS: WOMEN’S AND GENDER HISTORY IN CENTRAL, EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE (PART ONE)
Edited by Krassimira Daskalova
Introduction
Krassimira Daskalova
Romania: Women in the Attic
Maria Bucur
Women's and Gender History: The Case of Serbia
Ivana Pantelic and Biljana Dojcinovic
Gender History in Slovakia: Still a Challenge
Gabriela Dudekova
Searching for Women's and Gender History in Slovenia
Sabina Znidarsic Zagar and Nina Vodopivec
Women's and Gender History in Turkey: Beginning, Early Influences, Pioneers, Institutionalization, and Its Present State
Åžirin Tekeli
Restoring the Broken Continuity: Women's History in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Oksana Kis
BOOK REVIEWS
NEWS AND MISCELLANEA