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Introduction to the section Deconstructing Gender Discourses
When it comes to researching issues of gender in the former socialist societies, one soon stumbles upon a stereotype common in the post-Cold War era: that the lexicons of emancipation in formerly socialist societies could be the same as those in the West, if only they could be considered separately from the ideological regulations imposed on those societieis by their bureacractic appratuses. This stance prevailed in "Eastern" cultural studies and curatorial projects in the aftermath of 1989. The article undermines such standpoint by putting forth the allegation about new body ontologies of socialist societies generating gender configuration under the impact of the evicted private property.