Gendered subject of postsocialism : state socialist legacies, global challenges and (re)building of tradition / Ildikó Asztalos Morell and Yulia Gradskova -- New gendered geographies -- Hierarchical sisterhood : an example of Swedish-Bosnian encounters for gender equality and peace 1993-2013 / Sanela Bajramovic Jusufbegovic -- Elder care in Russia and sidelka from Central Asia / Noriko Igarashi -- Around the corner? : female empowerment and security in Georgia / Li Bennich-Björkman -- Neoliberal governance and the gendered enterprising self -- Russian hostess in Japan : a way towards self-fulfillment? / Yulia Mikhailova -- Post-socialist gender failures : men in the economies of recognition / Arturas Tereskinas -- "A mom who has time for everything" : mothers between work and family in contemporary Ukraine / Olena Strelnyk -- Roma women ngos agency in marginalized rural municipalities in Hungary / Ildikó Asztalos Morell -- Resilient legacies of state socialism -- "Women have always had harder lives" : the gender roles and representations of the self in the oral recollections of older Czech women / Radmila Varícková Slabáková -- Home is the "place of women's strength" : gendering housing in soviet and post-soviet Russia / Yulia Gradskova -- Post-soviet legacies in girls' education in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan / Kuanysh Tastanbekova -- The new state between marketization, democratization and retraditionalisation -- "Gender restoration" and "masculinisation" of political life in Poland : the controversies over the abortion legislation after 1989 / Renata Ingbrant -- Obstacles for women in technical higher education in Hungary / Valéria Szekeres -- Gendered identities among medical professionals in post-socialist Russian cinema / Roman Abramov, Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Denis Saltykov -- Index -- List of abbreviations