Domestic Violence under State Socialism in Europe: Emancipating Women, Abetting Perpetrators
摘要
This contribution lays out fundamental structures, policies, and policy implementation in European state socialist regimesthat provided important context for the continued existence of domestic violence under state socialism and after 1989. Theprimary focus is on Romania, though the chapter provide examples from other cases—the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia,Hungary, and Poland. It considers how forceful claims to gender emancipation common to all state socialist regimesintersected with other elements of state policy and social behavior to model specific gender norms in the family that neverfully interrogated patriarchy on matters of domestic violence.