Generations, kinship and care : gendered provisions of social security in Central Eastern Europe / edited by Haldis Haukanes & Frances Pine.

Bergen, Norway : University of Bergen, Centre for Women's and Gender Research, 2005.

287 pages : black and white illustrations ; 21 cm.

Papers from an international conference held May 2004 at the University of Bergen.

Gender roles, famly policy and family behaviour / Hana Hašková -- Faces of gender inequality in Slovakia / Alexandra Bitusiková -- Voluntary work in contemporary Poland / Ewa Śl̨ezak -- Child poverty in Poland / Wielisława Warzywoda-Kruszynska and Ewa Rokicka -- People at risk in the context of informal local networks / Gabriela Kiliánová -- Altering care : gifts and emotion in nursing practice within a Czech nursing home / Rosie Read -- Caring grandfathers : changes in support between generations in East Germany / Tatjana Thelen -- Gender and Kul'tura at the Siberian and Northern Russian Frontier / Joachim Otto Habeck -- Return as a strategy of social security? / Carolin Leutloff-Grandits -- The virtual widows of migrant husbands in war-torn mountainous Karabagh / Nona Shahnazaryan -- New ways of coping with authorities / Maja Hojer.

Includes bibliographical references.