Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia: Engendering Transition

ISBN-13: 9780521669634 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 316 str.

Valerie Sperling

Opis

This book offers a rich and clearly-written analysis of the women's movement in contemporary Russia. It tells the engaging story of the women's movement's formation and development in a country undergoing a radical economic and political transition from communist rule. Based on extensive interviews with the activists themselves, the book vividly documents the specific challenges facing women's groups in Russia, including societal attitudes toward feminism, the difficulty of organizing in post-communist countries, and the ways that the international environment has affected the women's movement.

Recenzje

' … meticulously researched and carefully argued … ' Slavonic and East European Review

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Russian women's movement groups and activists; 2. Analyzing social movements; 3. Feminism, femininity, and sexism: socio-cultural opportunities and obstacles to women's movement organizing; 4. Democracy without women is not democracy: political opportunities and obstacles to women's movement organizing; 5. Unemployment has a woman's face: economic opportunities and obstacles to women's movement organizing; 6. Remembrance of things past: the impact of political history on women's movement organizing; 7. International influences on the Russian women's movement; Conclusion.