Politics, policy and identity
EU eastern enlargement and East-West differences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6290907 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peggy Watson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 369-384 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13501760050086080 |
| OpenAlex | W2124649201 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article considers the implications of generalizing existing EU equal opportunities legislation to countries that are in a transition from state socialism. The transposition of Western policy assumes that gender identities and interests in the East and the West are the same. The East-West tensions that persist over the ideas of gender and feminism suggest that such an assumption may be out of place. I discuss explicit sexual equality policies under communism, showing how, despite the limits to their success, sexual difference was nevertheless not experienced as the source of political inequality during the communist regime. Sexual equalization was rather the unintended consequence of state socialism, where political exclusion was defined in terms of society vis-À-vis the state. While existing EU policy has been oriented towards the exclusionary meaning that the public-private distinction has had in the West, in the communist countries political inequality was not defined in these terms. For eastern European countries, convergence with the West means not only the rise of masculinism, it means - among other things - the rise of unemployment for both women and men, and the rise of class. One reason why sexual discrimination in the labour market may not have priority among eastern European women's concerns is that a starker comparison is between the unemployment of both sexes now, as compared with the full employment of both sexes in the past. Keywords: Civil SocietyEastern EnlargementEast-WEST DifferenceGenderPost-SOCIALISM
Capitalism · Communism · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Sociology · State (computer science · State socialism · Unemployment · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Gender Politics and Representation · Law
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The Weakest Link? EU Accession and Enlargement
A lacking legitimacy in the transposition of the EU's equal opportunity directives
In My Opinion, Work Would be in First Place and Family in Second’
EU Integration and the Transformation of Post‐communist Welfare
Gender Equality in the European Union
States’ Compliance with International Requirements
Reactive Identity versus EU Integration
Women, Work and Equal Opportunities in Post-Communist Transition
Cinderella goes to market
Missing women.
Why is there no feminism after communism?
Gender Politics and Post-Communism
Women, Policy and Politics
Re-thinking Transition
Gender Relations, Education and Social Change in Poland
Five years after unification
Social Prestige and Gender
Explaining rising mortality among men in Eastern Europe
The European Union and women's rights
The Perception of Inequality in Poland 1956-1980
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2010 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |