Magyar Women : Hungarian Womens Lives

Vast changes within East and Central Europe since 1989 have brought countries in this region, including Hungary, under sharp focus. This important study of womens situation within the changing context of Hungarian society gives a comprehensive overview of the various factors which make up womens lives. Rather than experiencing social radicalism in the 1960s, women in Hungary were experiencing the full effects of their rigid, authoritarian statist policies. What this meant for their everyday lives is considered in terms of womens paid and unpaid work, family ideologies, social policy innovations, womens health care, changing attitudes, and womens hopes and aspirations. Against the background of new openings on the political scene, questions concerning civil society and space for womens agendas are vital.