The Anthropology of East Europe Review: Central Europe, Eastern 

Europe and Eurasia 


VOLUME 17, Number, 1, Spring, 2002 

Editors 

Robert Rotenberg 


Eva Huseby-Darvas 

Nancy Ries 

Barbara West 
Matti Bunzl 

LaszlO Kurti 

CONTENTS 

EDITOR'S NOTES: ................................................................................................................................................................ 3 

Barbara A. West (University ofthe Pacific) 

THE LITTLE GIRL, THE GIRL TO WHOM 'IT' HAPPENED, NATURAL PREGNANCY, SAINT MARY'S BED ....... 4 

Bitone, Eszter Gera (Balastya, Hungary) (Translated by S'ra Kaiser, ed. by Brent Holt) 

THE 'NA TURAL CHILDBIRTH' MOVEMENT IN RUSSIA: SELF-REPRESENTATION STRATEGIES .................... II 

Ekaterina Be)ooussova 

CHILDBIRTH DEFINITIONS AND CHILDBIRTH EXPERIENCE .................................................................................. 19 

Hana Haskova Czech Academy of Sciences 

RE-THEORIZING EMANCIPATION: REMEMBERING AND RETHIN'KING 'GENDER EQUALITY' IN EASTERN 
EUROPEAN \VOMANIST THOUGHT ............................................................................................................................... 27 

Jessica Harvey Pennsylvania State University 

GENDER IN A PERFORMATIVE DEPICTION IN TADEUSZ ROZE\VICZ'S DRAMA WHITE MARRIAGE: ON THE 
BASIS OF JUDITH BUTLER'S THEORETICAL TEXT.. .................................................................................................. 41 

Lilianna Dorak Jagiellonian University 

THE EMBODIED SOLUTION OF 'THE WOMAN QIJESTION' IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA .................... 49 

Ioulia Gradskova, Moscow State Lomonosov University 

SUICIDE IN POST-SOCIALIST COUNTRIES: EXAMPLES FROM HUNGARY AND BELARUS .............................. 55 

Jeffrey Alyn Smith Debrecen University 

CINDERELLAS OF EUROPE: WASTE, FOOD, A~TI CLEANLINESS IN POSTSOCIALIST POLITICS ..................... 67 


Zsuzsa Gille, University of IlJinois, Urbana-Champaign 

A WESTERN BODY FOR THE RUSSIAN WOMAN: SHAPING GENDER IDENTITY IN MODERN WOMEN'S 
MAGAZINES ........................................................................................ , .............................................................................. 75 

Olga Kalacheva European University at St. Petersburg 

TRANSFORMATIONS IN EMBODIED LIFECOURSES: HUNGARIAN WOMEN IN THE 1990S ............................... 79 

Barb West University of the Pacific 

THE INTERPRETATION OF FEMALE BODIES AS A PROJECTION OF IDENTITY: THE ORIENT, THE BALKANS, 
OR SOMETHING ELSE? ..................................................................................................................................................... 87 

Simona Cupic Odeljenje za Istoriju Umetnosti 

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