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Post-Soviet women : from the Baltic to Central Asia / edited by Mary Buckley.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997Description: xvii, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521563208
  • 9780521563208
  • 0521565308
  • 9780521565301
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.420947 20
LOC classification:
  • HQ1665.15 .P67 1997
Contents:
Victims and agents : gender in post-Soviet states / Mary Buckley -- Do Russian women want to work? / Sarah Ashwin and Elain Bowers -- Rural women and the impact of economic change / Sue Bridger -- Women and the culture of entrepreneurship / Marta Bruno -- Images of an ideal woman : perceptions of Russian womanhood through the media, education, and women's own eyes / Rebecca Kay -- "She was asking for it" : rape and domestic violence against women / Lynne Attwood -- "For the sake of the children" : gender and migration in the former Soviet Union / Hilary Pilkington -- When the fighting is over : the soldiers' mothers and the Afghan madonnas / Kathryn Pinnick -- Adaptation of the Soviet Women's Committee : deputies' voices from "Women of Russia" / Mary Buckley -- Women's groups in Russia / Olga Lipovskaya -- Women in changing societies : Latvia and Lithuania / Nijole White -- Progress on hold : the conservative faces of women in Ukraine / Solomea Pavlychko -- Out of the kitchen into the crossfire : women in independent Armenia / Nora Dudwick -- Women's peace train in Georgia / Tamara Dragadze -- Between tradition and modernity : the dilemma facing contemporary Central Asian women / Shirin Akiner.
Content advice: How have women's lives changed in the republics of the former Soviet Union since the fall of the USSR? This is the first book systematically to examine changes and continuities across these states, focusing on women and work, social roles and women in politics. Drawing on interviews with women in factories, on farms and with women streetsellers, politicians and activists, the book questions whether women are "victims" or "agents" of change, and describes various strategies of coping and adaptation to new economic and social instabilities.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Victims and agents : gender in post-Soviet states / Mary Buckley -- Do Russian women want to work? / Sarah Ashwin and Elain Bowers -- Rural women and the impact of economic change / Sue Bridger -- Women and the culture of entrepreneurship / Marta Bruno -- Images of an ideal woman : perceptions of Russian womanhood through the media, education, and women's own eyes / Rebecca Kay -- "She was asking for it" : rape and domestic violence against women / Lynne Attwood -- "For the sake of the children" : gender and migration in the former Soviet Union / Hilary Pilkington -- When the fighting is over : the soldiers' mothers and the Afghan madonnas / Kathryn Pinnick -- Adaptation of the Soviet Women's Committee : deputies' voices from "Women of Russia" / Mary Buckley -- Women's groups in Russia / Olga Lipovskaya -- Women in changing societies : Latvia and Lithuania / Nijole White -- Progress on hold : the conservative faces of women in Ukraine / Solomea Pavlychko -- Out of the kitchen into the crossfire : women in independent Armenia / Nora Dudwick -- Women's peace train in Georgia / Tamara Dragadze -- Between tradition and modernity : the dilemma facing contemporary Central Asian women / Shirin Akiner.

How have women's lives changed in the republics of the former Soviet Union since the fall of the USSR? This is the first book systematically to examine changes and continuities across these states, focusing on women and work, social roles and women in politics. Drawing on interviews with women in factories, on farms and with women streetsellers, politicians and activists, the book questions whether women are "victims" or "agents" of change, and describes various strategies of coping and adaptation to new economic and social instabilities.

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