ABSTRACT
In the early 2000s, five Eastern European 1 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) 2 published the Serbian (2001), Bulgarian (2001), Romanian (2002), Polish (2004), and Russian (2007) translations of the American feminist classic Our Bodies, Ourselves ( OBOS ). 3 Since 1989, these five postcommunist 4 countries have undergone major socioeconomic, political, and ideological shake-ups. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the subsequent unification of West Germany and East Germany came the disintegration of almost everything else: the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, 5 Czechoslovakia, but also the disintegration of the structures that held communist societies together during the Cold War (1945-1989) as well as cultural points of reference. The year 1989, therefore, symbolizes the end of the communist and socialist organization of life and the beginning of the postcommunist period with the so-called transition 6 to democracy and market capitalist economy.
