Center of Women’s Studies and Policies

	Center of Women’s Studies and Policies Sofia 1000, 38 Tsar Asen street, phone: ++359 2 981 04 73, E-mail: cwsp@cwsp.bg (+359 2) 980 6265, e-mail:cwsp@cwsp.bg

Virtual Almanach

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The Almanach - place for researchers

Dear readres, Center of Women's Studies and Policies launched the Virtual Almanach as an initiative, providing a unique place for on-line publication of gender equality researches, carried out by Bulgarians, living and working abroud. The idea was born as a result of a joint cooperation work and trough consultations, provided by the team of CWSP to the authors of the published reserches. Some of the authors provided later their works for publication to the CWSP's website, where they have thematic place and can be linked to other similar information, materials and news. The Almanach is still developping and is open for all other Bulgarian researchers, working abroad and willing to be published and read by our audiance and partners worldwide.

For more information, please contact the team of the Center on cwsp@cwsp.bg

Gender, transition and media

1. "Engedering transition: A textual analysis of portrayals of female politicians in the Bulgarian press", Elza Ibroscheva, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Mass Communications, Southern Illinois University and Maria Raicheva-Stover, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Mass Media Department, Washburn University

This paper examines how the changes after the fall of the Berlin Wall have affected the presentation of female politicians in Eastern Europe. Textual analysis of the highest circulation daily in Bulgaria was used to examine how female politicians were portrayed during the 2005 parliamentary elections. The results unequivocally indicate that portrayals of women politicians are refracted through the prism of gender stereotypes. The overall conclusion is that gendered media portrayals of women politicians lead to the creation of a social climate tolerant towards and in fact, encouraging, of sexism in every aspect of life.

2. "You'll See, You'll Watch: The Success of Big Brother in Postcommunist Bulgaria", Maria Raicheva-Stover, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Mass Media Department, Washburn University Henderson Learning Center Paper submitted to the International Division of the Broadcast Education Association Conference in Las Vegas, April 27-29, 2006. This paper explores the development and growth of the reality television genre in a postcommunist setting. It uses the first reality TV show in Bulgaria, Big Brother, as a case study to show how the reality television format has far reaching social, technological and economic ramifications for the media industry of that postcommunist country. The paper places special emphasis on examining reality television as a global hybrid format, which provides assurance of unprecedented success when introduced locally.

Ethonationalism trough gender perspective

Gendered Ethno-Nationalism and Sexual Violation During the Wars of Disintegration in Former Yugoslavia, Bistra-Beatrix Volgyi, Prof. A. Agathangelou, Transnational Feminisms: Empire, Globalization and the BodySubmitted: December 19, 2005