ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how scholars of Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia (CEE&E) have framed answers to questions about the ways in which gender regimes are established and negotiated over time through specific spatial contexts: local, regional, national, transnational, or global. The chapter brings into focus the various ways—politically, religiously, historically—in which the region has been defined over time by scholars and gender activists. The debates over the value of the communist experience for women’s emancipation is a particularly notable aspect of the region. The chapter also analyzes the impact of the most often used framework, the national, in dialogue with the emerging interest in transnational and global studies. The chapter calls for a more explicit analytical engagement with these differences, while continuing to construct research specific to all these diverse and useful geographic frameworks.
