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Author : Sarah D. Phillips
Release : 2008-06-25
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 922/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine by : Sarah D. Phillips
Download or read book Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine written by Sarah D. Phillips. This book was released on 2008-06-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers democratization, privatization, and women's lives in postcolonial Ukraine.
Author : Jessica Zychowicz
Release : 2020-09-10
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 755/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Superfluous Women by : Jessica Zychowicz
Download or read book Superfluous Women written by Jessica Zychowicz. This book was released on 2020-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superfluous Women tells the unique story of a generation of artists, feminists, and queer activists who emerged in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union. With a focus on new media, Zychowicz demonstrates how contemporary artist collectives in Ukraine have contested Soviet and Western connotations of feminism to draw attention to a range of human rights issues with global impact. In the book, Zychowicz summarizes and engages with more recent critical scholarship on the role of digital media and virtual environments in concepts of the public sphere. Mapping out several key changes in newly independent Ukraine, she traces the discursive links between distinct eras, marked by mass gatherings on Kyiv’s main square, in order to investigate the deeper shifts driving feminist protest and politics today.
Author : Mieke Aerts
Release : 2015
Genre : Feminism
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Book Rating : 573/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gender and Activism by : Mieke Aerts
Download or read book Gender and Activism written by Mieke Aerts. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 'Yearbook' attends to various ways in which women were active and organized themselves in order to question sex and gender related issues in the political arena. Covering a diverse range of cultures and political situations the Yearbook discusses how women protested against perceived religious suppression; actively participated in local democratic political institutions whilst not really changing gender-roles; or discussed experienced discrepancies between socialism and feminism. How do women find their ways in democratic systems of governance? What do these systems offer them in terms of emancipation and involvement in political decision making affecting their lives?
Author : Femen
Release : 2014-06-05
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 258/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Femen by : Femen
Download or read book Femen written by Femen. This book was released on 2014-06-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ukraine is not a brothel!' This was the first cry of rage uttered by Femen during Euro 2012. Bare-breasted and crowned with flowers, perched on their high heels, Femen transform their bodies into instruments of political expression through slogans and drawings flaunted on their skin. Humour, drama, courage and shock tactics are their weapons. Since 2008, this 'gang of four' – Inna, Sasha, Oksana and Anna – has been developing a spectacular, radical, new feminism. First in Ukraine and then around the world, they are struggling to obtain better conditions for women, but they also fight poverty, discrimination, dictatorships and the dictates of religion. These women scale church steeples and climb into embassies, burst into television studios and invade polling stations. Some of them have served time in jail, been prosecuted for ‘hooliganism’ in their home country and are banned from living in other states. But thanks to extraordinary media coverage, the movement is gaining imitators and supporters in France, Germany, Brazil and elsewhere. Inna, Sasha, Oksana and Anna have an extraordinary story and here they tell it in their own words, and at the same time express their hopes and ambitions for women throughout the world.
Author : Ingo Schröder
Release : 2008
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 212/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Changing Economies and Changing Identities in Postsocialist Eastern Europe by : Ingo Schröder
Download or read book Changing Economies and Changing Identities in Postsocialist Eastern Europe written by Ingo Schröder. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses class formation and changes in personhood in contemporary Eastern Europe in the context of the spread of a market economy. The authors investigate processes of social closure, marginalization and elite formation, paying particular attention to their cultural expressions and to the legitimizing discourses of nationalist and neoliberal agendas. While individual and collective identities are inextricably linked with the consolidation of global capitalism, external blueprints are everywhere mediated through historically grounded experiences and local social relations. Comprising studies from Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Russia, the volume explores practices, stories, and performances in everyday life worlds. The ethnographies show both individual and collective identities to be emergent projects, constrained by economic processes and state policies but ultimately created by people themselves as they pursue their interests and search for meaning.
