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<i>Contemporary Women's Movements in Hungary: Globalization, Democracy, and Gender Equality</i>

Woodrow Wilson Center Press has published a new book, Contemporary Women's Movements in Hungary: Globalization, Democracy, and Gender Equality, by Katalin F&#225;bi&#225;n. It is copublished with The Johns Hopkins University Press.

As the first and only book in any language on contemporary women's movements in Hungary, this work serves as a groundbreaking study of the role of women's activism in a society where women are not yet adequately represented by established parties and political institutions. Drawing from eyewitness accounts of meetings and protests as well as first-person interviews with leading female activists, Katalin Fábián examines the interactions between Hungary's women's groups and the unique brand of democracy they have forged in post-communist Eastern Europe. Through her analysis, she demonstrates how democratization and globalization—with their attendant range of challenges and opportunities—have led women to redefine public-private divides.

"The core of this well conceived book presents an important argument about not only how women's concerns were marginalized after 1989, but also about how the rhetoric on globalization, democratization, freedom, and economic growth, as well as women's desire to act, implicated their activism in Hungary." —Joanna Regulska, Rutgers University

"The scholarship is superior. I do not think there is any other book which combines all the different aspects of gender and post-communism in such a comprehensive way."
—Nanette Funk, Brooklyn College

Katalin Fábián is an assistant professor of government and law at Lafayette College. She was an East European Studies Title VIII scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2005.

Contemporary Women's Movements in Hungary: Globalization, Democracy, and Gender Equality is distributed by The Johns Hopkins University Press, accessible online at www.press.jhu.edu or by telephone at 1-800-537-5487. The list price is $65.00 for hardcover.