Anlässlich des zehnjährigen Bestehens des Zentrums für Interdisziplinäre Frauenforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin kamen insgesamt 45 Teilnehmerinnen aus 18 Ländern im Dezember 1999 zu einer gleichnamigen Konferenz, die u. a. vom Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend gefördert wurde, zusammen. Ziel der Veranstaltung war es: "to initiate a 'bridging discourse' between East and West across a broad span of themes, focussing on the gender dimension. The tasks it addressed included, first, casting lights on differences and common factors in the post-socialist states using the concrete findings of empirical research and discussing the extent to which comparative research is a feasible analytical option; second, examing processes which (re-)construct "nationality" with the help of specific gender images and stereotypes; third, sounding out the explanatory potential and also limitations of feminist theories, while asking how far developments in the transformation societies of Central and Eastern Europe can exert a reverse impact on the evolution of (western) theory; and fourth, reviewing the institutionalisation of gender and women's studies in post-socialist countries and the need to promote this process." (11). Inhalt: Jana Gohrisch / Daphne Hahn / Gabriele Jähnert / Hildegard Maria Nickel / Iris Peinl / Katrin Schäfgen: Gender in Transition (11-20); Christine Bergmann: Gender in Transition in Eastern and Central Europe (21-24). Theoretical Approaches: Birgit Sauer: "Normalized Masculinities": Constructing Gender in Theories of Political Transition and Democratic Consolidation (26-36); Peggy Watson: Gender and Politics in Postcommunism (37-48); Jirina Smejkalová: Gender as an Analytical Category of Post-Communist Studies (49-56); Irene Dölling: Ten Years After: Gender Relations in a Changed World - New Challenges for Women's and Gender Studies (57-65); Hildegard Maria Nickel: ZIF - the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's Studies. A paradigm for the Institutionalisation of Women's and Gender Studies (66-74); Christine Kulke: Impacts of Globalization on Gender Politics and Gender Arrangements: New Chances and Challenges for Political Participation (75-83); Joanna Regulska: Gendered Integration of Europe: New Boundaries of Exclusion (84-96); Barbara Einhorn: Gender and Citizenship in the Context of Democratisation and Economic Transformation in East Central Europe (97-116). Feminist Theory and the Public-Private-Debate: Libora Oates-Indruchová: Discourses of Gender in the post-1989 Czech Republic: A Textual Perspective (118-123); Zuzana Kiczkova: Why do We Need Feminist Theories or One More Time about Publicity and Privacy (124-132); Martina Ritter: Russia - A Patriarchal Mama-Society. The Dynamics of the Private and the Public in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia (133-141); Irina Zherebkina: "Who is afraid of Feminism" in Ukraine? How Feminism is Possible as a Post-Soviet Political Project? (142-147); Bozena Choluj: Anti-Feminist Attitudes, Animosities between Women, and the Public Life (148-152); Vlasta Jalusic: Connecting Citizenship and Gender: The Possibilities of Arendtian Perspective (153-166); Marilyn Rueschemeyer: Women in the Political Life of Eastern Europe: The Years After the End of Communism (167-175); Malgorzata Fuszara: The Participation of Women in Polish Authorities (176-181); Anca Gheaus: Feminism and the Public-Private Distinction in Romanian Society (182-189); Mária Adamik: "The Greatest Promise - The Greatest Humiliation" (190-199). The Changing Labour-Market: Structures and Prospects: Silke Steinhilber: Gender Relations and Labour Market Transformation: Status Quo and Policy Responses in Central and Eastern Europe (201-213); Sabine Schenk: Re-Construction of Gender Stratification. About Men, Women, and Families in Changing Employment Structures - The Case of East-Germany (214-230); Iris Peinl: Beyond the Gender-Hierarchichal Monotony? Ambivalent Gender Relations in East-German Branches of Deutsche Bahn AG (German Railways PLC) (231-239). Construction of Identities - Images of Woman: Katarzyna Wiechowska: Universal Woman - Questions of Identity, Representation and Difference (241-246); Krassimira Daskalova: Manipulated Emancipation: Representations of Women in Post-Communist Bulgaria (246-253); Mihaly Riszovannij: Media Discourses of Homosexuality in Hungary (254-260); Zorica Mrsevic: In Search of Lost (Taken Away) Identity (261-267); Madalina Nicolaescu: Generating New Definitions of Feminine Identity (268-273); Christine Eifler: The Armed Forces as a Place of Social Construction of Gender: Women in the Russian Military (274-277); Ioulia Gradskova: "The Soviet Woman's" Identity or Does the History Matter? (278-283); Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic: The Construction of Identities in Media Images of Violence Against Women (284-294); Caroline Antonia Wilcke: Standing at the Crossroad? Women's and Gender Images in Present Day's Uzbekistan (295-301). Feminist Perspectives and National Identities: Ellen Krause: The State is a Man who Protects the Nation - Gender Relations and the Concept of State and Nation in Eastern and Central Europe (303-311); Rada Ivekovic: Where Gender and "National/Ethnic" Difference Meet (312-318); Natassja Smiljanic: Women's Human Rights in War: Outside the Law? (319-323). Institutionalization of Women's and Gender Studies: Irina Novikova: East European Feminisms - in Rooms of our Own? On the Problems of Feminist Theorising and Integrating Women's/Gender Studies in the Baltics/Latvia (325-329); Katrin Schäfgen: Gender Studies at Humboldt University. The Process of Institutionalization in Germany (330-334); Malgorzata Fuszara: Gender Studies at Warsaw University (335-338); Eva Vesinová-Kalivodová / Jirina Siklová: The Status of Women's and Gender Studies at Universities in Post-Communist Countries: the Example of the Czech Republic. Experiences from the First Ten Years After the Change (339-344); Zoya A. Khotkina: Ten Years of Gender Studies in Russia: We have been Able to Accomplish a Lot and Look Forward with Optimism (345-349); Olga Lipovskaya: Institutionalization of Gender/Women's Studies in Russia/St.Petersburg (350-355); Biljana Kasic: Women's Studies: Ideological Images, Common Problems and Dilemmas (356-360); Katerina Kolozova: Dilemmas of Institutionalization and their Context/s (361-364); Margrit Eichler: Experiences in Institutionalizing Women's Studies at a Canadian University (365-370).