Russian Women and Their Organizations
Subtitle: Gender, Discrimination and Grassroots Women's Organizations, 1991-96
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: April 8, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780312228651
Subjects: Sociology Of Women; History; Gender Studies; History: World; Sociology; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Women's Studies - History; History-Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science / Women's Studies; Social Science-Women's Studies - History; General; Women's Studies - General; Russia (Federation); Sex discrimination against wom; Sex discrimination against women; Social conditions; Societies and clubs; Women
First sentence: The term 'gender' has no direct translation in the Russian language, and those limited circles of Russian academics and activists who have now begun to speak of gender simply use a russified version of the English word: gender, pronounce with a hard 'g'.