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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction: Linguistic approaches to gender and politics in eastern and central Europe.- PART I: Gender in language: Between language structure, policy and social transformation.- Chapter 2: Gender-sensitive language and the (in)visible Others': The case of Slovenia.- Chapter 3: The gender and language debate in Lithuania.- Chapter 4: Language change in times of turbulence: A corpus-based investigation of the rise of feminine personal nouns in Ukrainian.- PART II: Gender in discourse: (Re)framing gender in contexts of social transformation.- Chapter 5: The language of the family-friendly state': An emerging rhetoric of gender equality subversion in Hungary.- Chapter 6: The unlikely role of gender in the legitimization of war: The case of Russia-Ukraine conflict and Russian pro-war poetry.- Chapter 7: Gender and language in doing entrepreneurial womanhood' in Serbia: Women's agency between neoliberal capitalism and ethics of care.- PART III: The language of anti-gender mobilizations.- Chapter 8: The language of anti-genderist takeover of space: The case of LGBT-free' zones in Poland.- Chapter 9: Toxifying gender: A Bulgarian dictionary joins the anti-genderism register.- Chapter 10: Anti-gender discourse and the dictatorship of tolerance': Insights from Ukraine, Slovenia and Croatia.- Chapter 11: Semiotic process in the politics of anti-gender.- PART IV: Language, gender and protest: New resistance, new solidarities.- Chapter 12: From streets to Sejm: Discourses of feminist protest and political change in Poland.- Chapter 13: Pumpkins for the dictator': Belarus protests and the semiotic strategies of feminist resistance.
