(4) Although we do not exclude the earlier developments in the field, the major aim of this Forum is to bring together contributions about the situation of women's and gender history in CESEE during the past few decades. But as important as this period was for the formation of our field, in many countries around the world women's history is much older and was practiced by women and men in many different contexts and different ways, as the work of both Western-Gerda Lerner, (1) Bonnie Smith, (2) Natalie Zemon Davis, (3) to name but a few, and East European historians has shown. Another important characteristic of the earlier period is that women's history was one of the forerunners in women's studies. Many practitioners in this period came from social history and/or were influenced by the overall progressive political climate of the 1960s and 1970s.
Women's history as we know it as an academic discipline appeared in Western countries in the late 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. 4 and 5), this and the next issue of Aspasia will host a Forum about the "state of the art" of women's and gender history in the same region.
Discussions on feminism and identity are also revealing as they highlight the discourses and political projects at the intersections of personal experiences with broader socio-cultural and economic fields, in particular the context of migration and the current crisis in Greece.After publishing a two-part Forum about women's and gender studies in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) in Aspasia (vols. The diverse, compelling but also competing accounts of women’s childhood and early adult lives in socialist times in their Eastern European countries of origin is an intriguing way to explore issues of being, belonging and becoming. The paper explores these women’s life stories, memories and experiences, in both their ancestral homelands as well as country of settlement, in order to examine the intersections of gender and identity in how the recollection of socialist pasts informs the understanding of living present and future capitalist lives. This paper draws from an oral history project on ‘Gendered Histories of Resilience and Resistance: Eastern European Women’s Narratives of Mobility and Survival’, which is a narrative ethnography of Albanian, Bulgarian, Romanian and Polish migrant women living in Greece.
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