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Author : Valerie Sperling
Release : 1999-11-04
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 634/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia by : Valerie Sperling
Download or read book Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia written by Valerie Sperling. This book was released on 1999-11-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and clearly-written analysis of the women's movement in contemporary Russia.
Author : Aino Saarinen
Release : 2013-11-26
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 345/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women and Transformation in Russia by : Aino Saarinen
Download or read book Women and Transformation in Russia written by Aino Saarinen. This book was released on 2013-11-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at Russian women’s mobilization and agency during the two periods of transformation, the turn of the 19th-20th century and the 20th – 21st century. Bringing together the parallels between the two great transformations, it focuses on both the continuities and breaks and, importantly, it shows them from the grassroots point of view, emphasizing the local factor. Chapters show the international and transnational aspects of Russian women’s agency of different spheres and different historical periods. The book goes on to raise new research questions such as the evaluation and comparison of Soviet society and contemporary Russia from the point of view of gender and women’s possibilities in society.
Author : Vitalina Koval
Release : 1995
Genre : Russia (Federation)
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Book Rating : 850/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women in Contemporary Russia by : Vitalina Koval
Download or read book Women in Contemporary Russia written by Vitalina Koval. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The position of Russia has always been difficult. In spite of the Revolution in 1917, the legal, economic, social and political inequalities between men and women have remained severe. For more than seventy years the official propaganda of the Soviet system deliberately concealed from the public, in the West as well as the East, the actual position of women, presenting it in rose-colored hues and proclaiming that, under socialism, the issue of the position of women in society had been resolved once and for all. However, the opposite was true: women increasingly suffered from overt and covert discrimination. In fact, the discrepancy between the official and actual positioning of working women became so acute that it led to serious social problems. The democratic reforms of the mid-1980s brought some positive changes at last; for the first time, the "women's issue" was recognized as an urgent socio-political problem requiring serious investigation and practical measures. The authors of this collection of original essays, most of whom are social scientists at the Moscow Academy of Science, examine those aspects of life of women in Russia today which aremost pressing, not least those arising from the multi-ethnic composition of the Russian Federation that comprises more than one hundred different nationalities and in which women constitute fifty-three per cent of the population.
Author : Linda Racioppi
Release : 1997
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 212/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women's Activism in Contemporary Russia by : Linda Racioppi
Download or read book Women's Activism in Contemporary Russia written by Linda Racioppi. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They also examine the dynamics among these women's groups in Russia and reveal how the personal life histories of the activists reflect the ways women have responded to the changing political, economic, and social landscape in the former Soviet Union.
Author : Rosalind J. Marsh
Release : 1996-03-14
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 722/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women in Russia and Ukraine by : Rosalind J. Marsh
Download or read book Women in Russia and Ukraine written by Rosalind J. Marsh. This book was released on 1996-03-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, leading western specialists and Russian and Ukrainian feminists examine how gender has shaped Russian and Ukrainian history from the twelfth century to the present. In particular, they analyse the current backlash against women's emancipation. Using new archival materials and the insights of feminist theory, the contributors explore the relevance of gender equality and difference in Russian history. They find that women have not merely submitted to the patriarchal system, but instead have found creative ways of resisting it. Chapters focusing on contemporary Russia discuss abortion, pornography, sexual minorities, young women's lifestyles, the impact of economic reform on women and the development of the women's movement. This book will be of interest to students and specialists in Russian, Ukrainian and women's studies, as well as to historians, political scientists, sociologists and economists.
