Publications of ZARAH Team Members – ZARAH

Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 31, No. 2, Special Issue.

Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 31, No. 2, Special Issue.

Ghit, Alexandra, Veronika Helfert, lvelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, and Susan Zimmermann. “Women and the Gendered Politics of Work in Central and Eastern Europe, and Internationally, in the Twentieth Century: Activism, Governance, and Scale.” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 31, no. 2 (2023): 227–240.

Ghit, Alexandra, Veronika Helfert, lvelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, and Susan Zimmermann. “Women and the Gendered Politics of Work in Central and Eastern Europe, and Internationally, in the Twentieth Century: Activism, Governance, and Scale.” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 31, no. 2 (2023): 227–240.

Masheva, Ivelina. “‘An Eight-hour Day for Women Workers”: Negotiating Working Time in the Bulgarian Textile Industry between International Labour Politics and the Shop Floor, 1890s to 1930s.” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 31, no. 2 (2023): 241–260.

Masheva, Ivelina. “‘An Eight-hour Day for Women Workers”: Negotiating Working Time in the Bulgarian Textile Industry between International Labour Politics and the Shop Floor, 1890s to 1930s.” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 31, no. 2 (2023): 241–260.

Ghit, Alexandra. “The Treacherous Trade Unionist: Paraschiva B. Ion and Labour Activism in the Romanian Tobacco Sector, 1920s to 1940s.” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 31, no. 2 (2023): 261–278.

Ghit, Alexandra. “The Treacherous Trade Unionist: Paraschiva B. Ion and Labour Activism in the Romanian Tobacco Sector, 1920s to 1940s.” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 31, no. 2 (2023): 261–278.

Varsa, Eszter. “‘The Rulers Are the Causes of the War […] They Are the Reason There is No Bread in Our Town’: Women’s Food Riots in the Hungarian Countryside, 1917-1918”. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 31, no. 2 (2023): 279–299.

Varsa, Eszter. “‘The Rulers Are the Causes of the War […] They Are the Reason There is No Bread in Our Town’: Women’s Food Riots in the Hungarian Countryside, 1917-1918”. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 31, no. 2 (2023): 279–299.

Popova, Zhanna. “Polish Women Labour Inspectors between the World Wars: Scrutinizing the Workplace and Mobilizing Public Opinion.” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 31, no. 2 (2023): 301–319.

Popova, Zhanna. “Polish Women Labour Inspectors between the World Wars: Scrutinizing the Workplace and Mobilizing Public Opinion.” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 31, no. 2 (2023): 301–319.

Tešija, Jelena. “‘Millions of Working Housewives’: The International Co-Operative Women’s Guild and Household Labour in the Interwar Period.” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 31, no. 2 (2023): 321–338.

Tešija, Jelena. “‘Millions of Working Housewives’: The International Co-Operative Women’s Guild and Household Labour in the Interwar Period.” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 31, no. 2 (2023): 321–338.

Zimmermann, Susan. “Spurring Women to Action? Communist-led Women’s Trade Unionism Between the Hungarian Shop Floor and Top-level Internationalism, 1947 to 1959.” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 31, no. 2 (2023): 339–362.

Zimmermann, Susan. “Spurring Women to Action? Communist-led Women’s Trade Unionism Between the Hungarian Shop Floor and Top-level Internationalism, 1947 to 1959.” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 31, no. 2 (2023): 339–362.

Helfert, Veronika. “Part-Time Work: The Co-Production of a Contested Employment Model for Women in Austria and Internationally, 1950s to 1980s.” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 31, no. 2 (2023): 363–383.

Helfert, Veronika. “Part-Time Work: The Co-Production of a Contested Employment Model for Women in Austria and Internationally, 1950s to 1980s.” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 31, no. 2 (2023): 363–383.

Zimmermann, Susan. “Dance Around a ‘Sacred Cow’: Women’s Night Work and the Gender Politics of the Mass Worker in State-Socialist Hungary and Internationally.” In State Socialism in Eastern Europe: History, Theory, Anti-Capitalist Alternatives, edited by Eszter Bartha, Tamás Krausz, and Bálint Mezei, 79–124. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Zimmermann, Susan. “Dance Around a ‘Sacred Cow’: Women’s Night Work and the Gender Politics of the Mass Worker in State-Socialist Hungary and Internationally.” In State Socialism in Eastern Europe: History, Theory, Anti-Capitalist Alternatives, edited by Eszter Bartha, Tamás Krausz, and Bálint Mezei, 79–124. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Biçer-Deveci, Elife and Selin Çağatay. “Introduction: Reimagining Gender Equality Struggles towards a More Inclusive History,” Diyâr: Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies 4, no. 1 (2023), 5–19.

Biçer-Deveci, Elife and Selin Çağatay. “Introduction: Reimagining Gender Equality Struggles towards a More Inclusive History,” Diyâr: Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies 4, no. 1 (2023), 5–19.

Çağatay, Selin. “‘If Women Stop, the World Stops.’ Forging Transnational Solidarities with the International Women’s Strike.” International Feminist Journal of Politics, published online, 14 February 2023.

Çağatay, Selin. “‘If Women Stop, the World Stops.’ Forging Transnational Solidarities with the International Women’s Strike.” International Feminist Journal of Politics, published online, 14 February 2023.

Adak, Sevgi, and Selin Çağatay. “Revisiting Feminist Historiography on Women’s Activism in Turkey: Beyond the Grand Narrative of Waves.” Women’s History Review, vol. 32, no. 5 (2023), 723–744.

Adak, Sevgi, and Selin Çağatay. “Revisiting Feminist Historiography on Women’s Activism in Turkey: Beyond the Grand Narrative of Waves.” Women’s History Review, vol. 32, no. 5 (2023), 723–744.

Çağatay, Selin, Mia Liinason, and Olga Sasunkevich. “Varieties of Exceptionalism: A Conversation.” In Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe, edited by Mia Liinason and Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, 154–175. London: Routledge, 2023.

Çağatay, Selin, Mia Liinason, and Olga Sasunkevich. “Varieties of Exceptionalism: A Conversation.” In Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe, edited by Mia Liinason and Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, 154–175. London: Routledge, 2023.

Çağatay, Selin, Mia Liinason and Olga Sasunkevich. Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey: Transnationalizing Spaces of Resistance. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Çağatay, Selin, Mia Liinason and Olga Sasunkevich. Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey: Transnationalizing Spaces of Resistance. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Çağatay, Selin. “Turkey and Eastern Europe: Historicising Geopolitical Convergences in Gender Politics.” In Decolonising (Knowledge on) Euro-Mediteranean Relations: Insights on Shared Histories and Futures, edited by Daniela Huber and Lorenzo Kamel, 43–54. Rome: Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2022.

Çağatay, Selin. “Turkey and Eastern Europe: Historicising Geopolitical Convergences in Gender Politics.” In Decolonising (Knowledge on) Euro-Mediteranean Relations: Insights on Shared Histories and Futures, edited by Daniela Huber and Lorenzo Kamel, 43–54. Rome: Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2022.

Arik, Hülya, Selin Çağatay, Mia Liinason, and Olga Sasunkevich. “Unsettling the Political: Conceptualizing the Political in Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, the Scandinavian Countries, and Turkey.” International Feminist Journal of Politics, published online, 1 November 2022.

Arik, Hülya, Selin Çağatay, Mia Liinason, and Olga Sasunkevich. “Unsettling the Political: Conceptualizing the Political in Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, the Scandinavian Countries, and Turkey.” International Feminist Journal of Politics, published online, 1 November 2022.

Betti, Eloisa, Leda Papastefanaki, Marica Tolomelli, and Susan Zimmermann. “Thinking the History of Women’s Activism into Global Labor History.” In Women, Work, and Activism: Contributions to an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century, edited by Eloisa Betti, Leda Papastefanaki, Marica Tolomelli, and Susan Zimmermann, 1–31, Budapest/New York: Central European University Press, 2022.

Betti, Eloisa, Leda Papastefanaki, Marica Tolomelli, and Susan Zimmermann. “Thinking the History of Women’s Activism into Global Labor History.” In Women, Work, and Activism: Contributions to an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century, edited by Eloisa Betti, Leda Papastefanaki, Marica Tolomelli, and Susan Zimmermann, 1–31, Budapest/New York: Central European University Press, 2022.

Gnydiuk, Olga. “’Trade Unions Are Also Working Hard in This Direction’: Gendered Labour Policy and Women’s Work in Ukraine, 1970s – Early 1980s.” In Women and History: Gender Perspectives of Everyday Life during the Late Soviet Period (1970s and 1980s), edited by Heinrich Boell Foundation, 7–17. Kiev/Tbilisi: Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2021.

Gnydiuk, Olga. “’Trade Unions Are Also Working Hard in This Direction’: Gendered Labour Policy and Women’s Work in Ukraine, 1970s – Early 1980s.” In Women and History: Gender Perspectives of Everyday Life during the Late Soviet Period (1970s and 1980s), edited by Heinrich Boell Foundation, 7–17. Kiev/Tbilisi: Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2021.

Helfert, Veronika. Women, Stand up! A Women’s and Gender History of the Austrian Revolution and Council Movement, 1916-1924 [in German]. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021.

Helfert, Veronika. Women, Stand up! A Women’s and Gender History of the Austrian Revolution and Council Movement, 1916-1924 [in German]. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021.

Varsa, Eszter. Protected Children, Regulated Mothers: Gender and the “Gypsy Question” in State Care in Postwar Hungary, 1949-1956. Budapest/New York: CEU Press, 2021.

Varsa, Eszter. Protected Children, Regulated Mothers: Gender and the “Gypsy Question” in State Care in Postwar Hungary, 1949-1956. Budapest/New York: CEU Press, 2021.

Zimmermann, Susan. Women’s Politics and Men’s Trade Unionism: International Gender Politics, Female IFTU Trade Unionists and the Workers’ and Women’s Movements of the Interwar Period [in German]. Vienna: Löcker Verlag, 2021 (open access edition, with minor corrections [2023]).

Zimmermann, Susan. Women’s Politics and Men’s Trade Unionism: International Gender Politics, Female IFTU Trade Unionists and the Workers’ and Women’s Movements of the Interwar Period [in German]. Vienna: Löcker Verlag, 2021 (open access edition, with minor corrections [2023]).

Helfert, Veronika. “Between Pacifism and Militancy: Socialist Women in the First Austrian Republic, 1918-1934.” Diplomacy & Statecraft 31, no. 4 (2020): 648-672.

Helfert, Veronika. “Between Pacifism and Militancy: Socialist Women in the First Austrian Republic, 1918-1934.” Diplomacy & Statecraft 31, no. 4 (2020): 648-672.

Varsa, Eszter, and Dorottya Szikra. “‘New Eugenics,’ Gender and Sexuality: A Global Perspective on Reproductive Politics and Sex Education in Cold War Europe.” The History of the Family 25, no. 4 (2020): 527–549.

Varsa, Eszter, and Dorottya Szikra. “‘New Eugenics,’ Gender and Sexuality: A Global Perspective on Reproductive Politics and Sex Education in Cold War Europe.” The History of the Family 25, no. 4 (2020): 527–549.

Zimmermann, Susan. “‘It Shall Not Be a Written Gift, but a Lived Reality’: Equal Pay, Women’s Work, and the Politics of Labor in State-Socialist Hungary, Late 1960s to Late 1970s.” In Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945-1989. Contributions to a History of Work, edited by Marsha Siefert, 337–372. Budapest/New York: Central European University Press, 2020.

Zimmermann, Susan. “‘It Shall Not Be a Written Gift, but a Lived Reality’: Equal Pay, Women’s Work, and the Politics of Labor in State-Socialist Hungary, Late 1960s to Late 1970s.” In Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945-1989. Contributions to a History of Work, edited by Marsha Siefert, 337–372. Budapest/New York: Central European University Press, 2020.

Helfert, Veronika. “Schwestern im ‘Bund der Brüder’? Zum Verschwinden (und Wiederfinden) der Frauen in der österreichischen Rätebewegung.” In Die Rätebewegung in Österreich. Von sozialer Notwehr zur konkreten Utopie, edited by Anna Leder, Mario Memoli, and Andreas Pavlic, 105–124. Wien: Mandelbaum Verlag, 2019.

Helfert, Veronika. “Schwestern im ‘Bund der Brüder’? Zum Verschwinden (und Wiederfinden) der Frauen in der österreichischen Rätebewegung.” In Die Rätebewegung in Österreich. Von sozialer Notwehr zur konkreten Utopie, edited by Anna Leder, Mario Memoli, and Andreas Pavlic, 105–124. Wien: Mandelbaum Verlag, 2019.

Zimmermann, Susan. “Equality of Women’s Economic Status? A Major Bone of Contention in the International Gender Politics Emerging During the Interwar Period.” The International History Review 41, no. 1 (2019): 200–227.

Zimmermann, Susan. “Equality of Women’s Economic Status? A Major Bone of Contention in the International Gender Politics Emerging During the Interwar Period.” The International History Review 41, no. 1 (2019): 200–227.

Ghit, Alexandra. “Professionals’ and Amateurs’ Pasts: A Decolonizing Reading of Post-war Romanian Histories of Gendered Interwar Activism.” European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire 25, no. 1 (2018): 21–44.

Ghit, Alexandra. “Professionals’ and Amateurs’ Pasts: A Decolonizing Reading of Post-war Romanian Histories of Gendered Interwar Activism.” European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire 25, no. 1 (2018): 21–44.