Post-Soviet women encountering transition
Subtitle: nation building, economic survival, and civic activism
By: edited by Kathleen Kuehnast and Carol Nechemias
Contributors: Kuehnast, Kathleen R; Nechemias, Carol, 1947-
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780801879180
Subjects: Women -- Former Soviet republics -- Social conditions; Women -- Former Soviet republics -- Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: women navigating change in post-Soviet currents / Kathleen Kuehnast and Carol Nechemias; title: Part I. Gender and nation building. Strong women, weak state : family politics and nation building in post-Soviet Ukraine / Tatiana Zhurzhenko; title: The gender of sovereignty : constructing statehood, nation, and gender regimes in post-Soviet Tatarstan / Katherine E. Graney; title: Engendering citizenship in postcommunist Uzbekistan / David Abramson; title: Conceptualizing gender, nation, and class in post-Soviet Belarus / Elena Gapova; title: Part II. Women and rural household economies. Feminizing the new silk road : women traders in rural Kazakhstan / Cynthia Werner; title: The gendered nature of Viliui Sakha post-Soviet adaptation / Susan A. Crate; title: Part III. Democratization and women's civic activism. Women, building civil society, and democratization in post-Soviet Azerbaijan / Nayereh Tohidi; title: Women's political activism in Russia : the case of Samara / Ludmila Popkova; title: Two worlds apart : the lack of integration between women's informal networks and nongovernmental organizations in Uzbekistan / Andrea Berg; title: Sisterhood versus the "moral" Russian state : the postcommunist politics of rape / Janet Elise Johnson; title: Part IV. Assistance encounters. Meeting the challenge together? Russian grassroots women's organizations and the shortcomings of Western aid / Rebecca Kay; title: Working at the local-global intersection : the challenges facing women in Armenia's nongovernmental organization sector / Armine Ishkanian; title: Gender and democracy : strategies for engagement and dialogue on women's issues after socialism in St. Petersburg / Michele Rivkin-Fish; title: Strategizing gender and development : action research and ethnographic responsibility in the Russian provinces / Julie Hemment