Bug inspectors and beauty queens : the problems of translating feminism into Russian -- Engendering the Russian body politic -- Women in Yugoslavia -- Traditions of patriotism, questions of gender : the case of Poland -- Sex, subjectivity, and socialism : feminist discourses in East Germany -- Deciphering the body of memory : writing by former East German women writers -- New members and organs : the politics of porn -- Sex in the media and the birth of the sex media in Russia -- The underground closet : political and sexual dissidence in East European culture -- Ivan Soloviev's reflections on Eros -- Russian women writing alcoholism : the sixties to the present -- Gendering cinema in postcommunist Hungary.