Vera SokolovaThe author: Vera Sokolova, Ph.D. (University of Washington at Seattle), is Assistant Professor of History and Gender Studies at the School of Humanities of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. She is a co-editor of Gender and Generation (Literaria Pragensia 2007). Her papers appeared in, among other periodicals, The Anthropology of East Europe Review, The Czech Sociological Review, Cargo, Umelec and Souvislosti, as well as in the collected volumes Changes in the Heart of Europe (ibidem-Verlag 2006), Mediale Welten in Tschechien nach 1989 (Kubon & Sagner 2005), Over the Wall/After the Fall (Indiana University Press 2004) and Political Systems and Definitions of Gender Roles (Edizione Plus/Universita di Pisa 2001). Read More Read Less