Dear Colleague,
The latest Open Access volume of Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History has published! This volume focuses on socialist masculinities.
Guest Editor: Peter Hallama
Editor's Introduction
Sharon A. Kowalsky https://bit.ly/3u7NlP3
Special Forum: Socialist Masculinities Introduction: Men and Masculinities under Socialism: Toward a Social and Cultural History Peter Hallama https://bit.ly/3zuFdte
Articles
From Don Juan to Comrade Ivan: Educating the Young Men of the Urals for Love and Marriage, 1953–1964 Brendan McElmeel https://bit.ly/39zEH2B
Behind Closed Doors?: The Private Lives of the Minor Communist Party Activists in Romania, 1945–1960 Cristina Diac https://bit.ly/3CE8Av1
Cosmonaut Gossip: Socialist Masculinity as Private-Public Performance in the Kamanin Diaries Erica L. Fraser and Kateryna Tonkykh https://bit.ly/3lRkriB
Women’s Work and Men: Generational and Class Dimensions of Men’s Resistance to Women’s Paid Employment in State-Socialist Poland (1956–1980) Natalia Jarska https://bit.ly/3zBdszl
Masculinity, Disability, and Politics in Polish War-Disabled Memoirs (1971) Wojciech Śmieja https://bit.ly/3CHO0tY
Heal and Serve: Soviet Military Doctors “Doing Masculinity” during the Afghan War (1979–1989) Magali Delaloye https://bit.ly/3u7ovPi
Comment: Socialism’s Mal(e)contents: Masculinity as Performance Art in Postwar and Late Socialism Marko Dumančić https://bit.ly/2ZpknPE
The Source
For the Father of a Newborn: Soviet Obstetrics and the Mobilization of Men as Medical Allies Amy E. Randall https://bit.ly/3ADfDU3
Book Reviews
Kristen Ghodsee, Hülya Adak, Elsa Stéphan, Chiara Bonfiglioli, Ivan Stankov, Rumiana Stoilova, Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Mara Lazda, Adrienne Harris, Ayşe Durakbaşa, Lex Heerma van Voss, Lejila Mušić, Zdeňka Kalnická, Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska, Evguenia Davidova, Tsoneva Tsoneva, Georgi Medarov, and Irina Genova https://bit.ly/3nZmvHU
In Memoriam
Who Is Afraid of Feminist Thought?: In Memoriam: Hana Havelková (18 September 1949–31 October 2020) Veřa Sokolová and Libora Oates-Indruchová https://bit.ly/3kA7hHu