Introduction: Gender, Equality and the State from Socialism to Democracy?; R.Kay PART 1: EQUAL BUT DIFFERENT: STATE SOCIALISM AND WOMEN'S ROLES IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE 'We were very upset if we didn't look fashionable': Women's Beauty Practices in Post-War Russia; Y.Gradskova How to Combine Motherhood and Wage Labour: Hungarian Expert Perspectives during the 1960s; I.A.Morell Re-Privatising Women's Lives: From Khrushchev to Brezhnev; N.Vinokurova Wives or Workers? Women's Position in the Labour Force and in Domestic Life in Sweden and Russia during the 1960s; H.Carlbaeck Heroine-Mothers and Demographic Crises: The Legacy of the Late Soviet Era; S.Bridger PART 2: (RE-)NEGOTIATING GENDER, EQUALITY AND DIFFERENCE IN THE POSTSOCIALIST ERA: RIGHTS, PARTICIPATION AND MARGINALIZATION 'In our society it's as if the man is just some kind of stud': Men's Experiences of Fatherhood and Fathers' Rights in Contemporary Russia; R.Kay The Right to be Different? Sexual Citizenship and its Politics in Post-Soviet Russia; F.Stella Russian Women's Perceptions of Human Rights and Rights-Based Approaches in Everyday Life; V.Turbine Doubly Disadvantaged? Gender, Forced Migration and the Russian Labour Market; L.Kosygina Press Images of Human Trafficking from Russia: Myths and Interpretations; M.Buckley