Beyond Little Vera
Subtitle: women's bodies, women's welfare in Russia and Central/Eastern Europe
By: Angela Brintlinger and Natasha Kolchevska, editors
Contributors: Ohio State University. Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures; Ohio State University. Center for Slavic and East European Studies; Association for Women in Slavic Studies
Series: Ohio Slavic papers -- v. 7; Ohio Slavic papers -- v. 7.
Publisher: Ohio State University, Dept. of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures; The Center for Slavic and East European Studies
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbus, Oh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780893579814
Subjects: Women and communism; Congresses; Women and socialism; Women; Social conditions; Prostitutes; Femininity in literature; Motherhood in literature; Women prisoners; Rehabilitation; Health and hygiene
Notes: "This volume presents a selection of peer-reviewed papers from two interdisciplinary conferences cosponsored by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) in June 2005 [University of Illinois] and April 2007 [Ohio State University]."--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments / Angela Brintlinger; title: Introduction : women in transit(ion) / Natasha Kolchevska; title: Gendering dissent : of bodies and minds, survival and opposition under communism / Maria Bucur; title: Doubly 'other' : the prostitute as lesbian in Land of the deaf and Inhale-exhale / Emily E. Schuckman; title: The 'angelic little image' falls from grace : Adam's rib and the reimagining of maternity / Jenny Kaminer; title: From The pit to The spot : prostitution and trafficking in Russian film and society / Natalia Olshanskaya; title: Balkanism in media representations of trafficking and prostitution in postsocialist southeastern Europe : the case of Olena Popik / Mariya Radeva; title: 'There is nowhere to turn to today' : women reinventing a Communist past / Basia A. Nowak; title: Women, work, welfare, and the self in postsocialist Romania / Jill Massino; title: Sex, glamour, and grit : alcohol advertising in western Ukraine / Maureen Murney; title: Individual time preferences in prison populations : the effects of rehabilitation programs on women and men in Ukraine / Marianna Klochko; title: Gender, sexual exchange, and STI/HIV risk in post-Soviet Ukraine / Martha J. Bojko.