The Changing Political and Gender Regimes in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of the Contemporary Hungarian Women's Movements.

"Gender regime" is used here to describe the interlocking political, economic and cultural conditions that differentially regulate the lives of men and women. Two important measures of gender inequality -- the World Economic Forum's GGI and the UNDP's gender-sensitive development indices (GDI, GEM, and the brand-new Gender Inequality Index, GII) -- aid in assessing the changes taking place in postcommunist Central and Eastern Europe. Combining aggregate indices on gender inequality with the case study of Hungarian women's activism allows us to investigate why and under which socio-economic conditions movements have elected to pursue certain themes of mobilization. This paper places the dynamic foci of activism in Hungarian women's social movements in the context of regional trends. Applying the concept of gender regime to a case study, we analyze how the waves of Hungarian women's social movements have developed in the past twenty years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]