This study explores the history of women's and gender studies in higher education in Central Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet space since the early 1990s. It describes the interests – rooted in academic and non-academic contexts – of a whole variety of transnational and political actors and academics on the ground and relates them to the process of transforming higher education. The study highlights why and how varying transnational and local hegemonic constellations were conducive to the institutional development of women's and gender studies, while at the same time severely restricting the unfolding of their critical political potential.

Hungarian family law and the struggle for "gender order", 1848-1913The study contains three main theses: the idea that there was a need for ‘legal stability' in Hungary was a construction of positivist legal science, bound up with the idea of the (legally) unified nation state; legal and religious pluralism in Hungary posed a huge problem for legal science, especially when it came to developing a state-regulated family law; the process of "clarifying" and "stabilising" family law was at the same time a process of "clarifying" and "stabilising" gendered power relations within the family. The study argues that the inability of the state to complete this project was in fact symptomatic of deep uncertainties over the social roles of men and women, and multiple/competing definitions of both law and patriarchal power.

The article explores women's involvement in the production processes of film industry during state-socialist times and after. Based on original research, and approaching existing source material from a new perspective, the study asks the question of whether state-socialist policies to encourage women's employment also affected the domain of creative work? The text also juxtaposes a relatively favourable representation of women during the decades of state-socialism with recent male-dominated, if not homosocial shooting and production processes.

The death of Ferenc Puskás was a political event in Hungary – different groups of the ruling elite has transformed the burial to a play. The political message of Fidesz and the catholic clergy did not fit to the taste of the majority of the society. The article outlines the reasons behind, and shows the mystic and romantic nationalist interpretations of Puskás career and opposes it to his actual life path. The author shows that football became the tool of populist political manipulation also on the global field. Puskás "Öcsi" could not avoid his fate either. Politics and business are organically and inextricably intertwined also in the football industry.