Post-Soviet Women

ISBN-13: 9783031380655 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Opis

This volume explores how different post-Soviet countries have reinterpreted and diverged from the Soviet gender roles and values. It synthesizes results from multiple empirical studies that attend to increasingly conservative features of political governance in the region, particularly the authoritarian regime in Russia. The authors consider diverse enactments of ideologies, policies and practices of gender equality and women’s rights in crucial areas, such as legislative institutions, media, and social activism. The volume contributes to understanding post-Soviet societal dynamics relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, which emphasizes gender equality as part of fundamental human rights.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part 1. Women’s Position in the post-Soviet societies

Chapter 2. From defending women’s rights in the “whole world” to “traditional values”: (geo)politics of the Eurasian Women’s Forums

Chapter 3. Debates on domestic violence prevention law in Russia - pro and contra

Chapter 4. When the Private Remains Nonpolitical: Gender Equality and the Example of Armenia 

Chapter 5. General Trends in Gender Inequality in Post–Soviet Central Asia.

Chapter 6. Women’s rights in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan: In the grip of conservative re-traditionalization and neoliberal capitalism 

Chapter 7. Why was there no FEMEN in the Baltic states? Some preliminary observations

Part 2. Negotiating Women’s Roles

Chapter 8. Gender-sensitive policy in Ukrainian media: monitoring results in 2017-2020

Chapter 9. Women parliamentarians in Armenia: from traditional theme-takers to the new theme-givers

Chapter 10. Young Kazakh women between the past and the future: complexity and diversity of media consumption in Kazakhstan
Chapter 11. Being a Woman: discourses and imaginaries through the lenses of Russian nationalist and patriotic organizations

Part 3. New Movements and Activisms

Chapter 12. Women’s Activism and Artistic Engagements with the War in Ukraine’s

Donbas

Chapter 13. ’Nas b’iut, my letaem…’ ‘They beat us, we fly.’ Indigenous Feminisms in

the Russian North

Chapter 14. ‘Organize your own Slavophile feminism with blackjack and

intersectionality!’ On the politics of transliteration and borrowing in Russian-language

feminist translations of intersectionality 

Chapter 15. The state of Women Empowerment in Azerbaijan

Chapter 16. Women’s Agency during the Conservative Wave in Russian Social Policy 

Valkyries and Madonnas: Women’s representation and agency during the Russo-

Ukrainian war

Chapter 18. Conclusions

O autorze

Ann-Mari Sätre is Professor in Eurasian Studies and Director of Research at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Yulia Gradskova is Associate Professor of History and Research Coordinator at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies at Södertörn University, Sweden.

Vladislava Vladimirova is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Blurb

“Inevitably in the shadow of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the question Russia watchers will ask is where the soldiers’ mothers are who took to the streets to protest the Chechen wars. In its analysis of how the conservative turn in politics of the last two decades has undermined the steps made towards gender equality and the empowerment of women in the USSR successor states, this anthology provides some convincing answers. The story is not all gloom. The impressively researched essays, which introduce the reader to a broad range of case studies, also tell of the ways that women are fighting back within the constraints they face by an emboldened patriarchy across the region.”

--Judith Pallot, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford, UK

This volume explores how different post-Soviet countries have reinterpreted and diverged from the Soviet gender roles and values. It synthesizes results from multiple empirical studies that attend to increasingly conservative features of political governance in the region, particularly the authoritarian regime in Russia. The authors consider diverse enactments of ideologies, policies and practices of gender equality and women’s rights in crucial areas, such as legislative institutions, media, and social activism. The volume contributes to understanding post-Soviet societal dynamics relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, which emphasizes gender equality as part of fundamental human rights.

Ann-Mari Sätre is Professor in Eurasian Studies and Director of Research at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Yulia Gradskova is Associate Professor of History and Research Coordinator at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies at Södertörn University, Sweden.

Vladislava Vladimirova is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University, Sweden.