Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2026, 27 (1): 3-24 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2026.011

Revisiting the Gender Politics of Memory: Epistemic Struggles, Architectures, and Ecologies of Remembering in East Central Europe

Zuzana Maďarová ORCID...a, Agáta ©ústová Drelová ORCID...b
a Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava
b Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences and Eötvös Loránd University

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Received: July 22, 2026; Revised: July 30, 2026; Accepted: July 31, 2026; Prepublished online: September 8, 2026; Published: September 9, 2026  Show citation

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