Titlebook: Women and State Socialism; Alena Heitlinger Book 1979 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1979 socialism.state.

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Birth Control: A Woman’s Right to Choose?oviet Union rather than a safety net for the failure of contraception, as it is in Western countries? How do we account for the apparent contradiction between the persistent Soviet playing-down of contraception and its simultaneous attempt to cut down the abortion rate?

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Introductionst societies in Eastern Europe have been largely ignored by feminist scholarship in the West,. despite the fact that these societies themselves have an ideology of egalitarianism that incorporates a concern for sex equality. This book attempts to remedy the deficiency.

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Classical Marxist Theory of Women’s Oppression and Liberationto action for socialist revolution, socialist reconstruction and the transition to communism. Within this context, the Marxist theory of women’s oppression and emancipation is a significant factor in our understanding of the position of women in state-socialist societies.

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Employment, Earnings and Positions of Authorityons of authority. At present only the USSR (with 51 per cent) and the GDR (with 49 per cent) have more women in the labour force. By contrast, the proportion of women in the labour force in Western capitalist countries is much lower, ranging from 27 to 38 per cent, including many women employed on a part-time basis.