Can these issues provide the catalyst for transforming the embryonic women's groups into something like a mass women's movement? Or will the current allergy to feminism prevail? Many women now claim to have suffered from "too much emancipation" under socialism, and are seeking what they see as new forms of freedom in femininity and maternity. Lack of childcare and attacks upon abortion rights are narrowing choices. Soaring unemployment is driving women out of the workplace, and nationalist ideologues are urging them to reassume their "primary responsibility"-to produce babies for the nation. With the collapse of state socialism, women in Eastern and Central Europe are now faced with more than the double burden of paid and domestic labor.
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