Local/Global Encounters

Development (2007) 50, 110–116. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100341

Democracy in Eastern Europe: Women's way?

Sonja Lokar

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Abstract

Sonja Lokar describes the process of women's mobilization in Central and Southern Eastern Europe after the fall of communism. She divides this process into three stages: withdrawal into private strategies of survival, NGO phase and transformative politics. Most advances were achieved through institutionalized partnership of regionally connected new nation wide women's movements within the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe.

Keywords:

transition countries, new women's movements, regional gender equality institutions, transformative politics