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Author: Linda Racioppi
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781566395212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThey also examine the dynamics among these women's groups in Russia and reveal how the personal life histories of the activists reflect the ways women have responded to the changing political, economic, and social landscape in the former Soviet Union.
Author: Valerie Sperling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-11-04
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521669634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA rich and clearly-written analysis of the women's movement in contemporary Russia.
Author: Julie Hemment
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2007-03-12
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0253002567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJulie Hemment's engrossing study traces the development encounter through interactions between international foundations and Russian women's groups during a decade of national collapse. Prohibited from organizing independently under state socialism, women's groups became a focus of attention in the mid-1990s for foundations eager to promote participatory democracy, but the version of civil society that has emerged (the "third sector") is far from what Russian activists envisioned and what donor agencies promised. Drawing on ethnographic methods and Participatory Action Research, Hemment tells the story of her introduction to and growing collaboration with members of the group Zhenskii Svet (Women's Light) in the provincial city of Tver'.
Author: Valerie Sperling
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 444
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Aino Saarinen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-26
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1135020345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book looks at Russian women’s mobilization and agency during the two periods of transformation, the turn of the 19th-20th century and the 20th – 21st century. Bringing together the parallels between the two great transformations, it focuses on both the continuities and breaks and, importantly, it shows them from the grassroots point of view, emphasizing the local factor. Chapters show the international and transnational aspects of Russian women’s agency of different spheres and different historical periods. The book goes on to raise new research questions such as the evaluation and comparison of Soviet society and contemporary Russia from the point of view of gender and women’s possibilities in society.
Author: Valerie Jeanne Sperling
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 420
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Amy B. Caiazza
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780415931779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 2010-11-23
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0822973758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn July 20, 1917, Russia became the world's first major power to grant women the right to vote and hold public office. Yet in the wake of the October Revolution later that year, the foundational organizations and individuals who pioneered the suffragist cause were all but erased from Russian history. The women's movement, when mentioned at all, is portrayed as rooted in the elitist and bourgeois culture of the tsarist era, meaningless to proletarian and peasant women, and counter to socialist ideology. Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild reveals that Russian feminists in fact appealed to all classes and were an integral force for revolution and social change, particularly during the monumental uprisings of 1905-1917. Ruthchild offers a telling examination of the social dynamics in imperialist Russia that fostered a growing feminist movement. Based upon extensive archival research in six countries, she analyzes the backgrounds, motivations, methods, activism, and organizational networks of early Russian feminists, revealing the foundations of a powerful feminist intelligentsia that came to challenge, and eventually bring down, the patriarchal tsarist regime.Ruthchild profiles the individual women (and a few men) who were vital to the feminist struggle, as well as the major conferences, publications, and organizations that promoted the cause. She documents political debates on the acceptance of women's suffrage and rights, and follows each party's attempt to woo feminist constituencies despite their fear of women gaining too much political power. Ruthchild also compares and contrasts the Russian movement to those in Britain, China, Germany, France, and the United States. Equality and Revolution offers an original and revisionist study of the struggle for women's political rights in late imperial Russia, and presents a significant reinterpretation of a decisive period of Russian-and world-history.
Author: Rosalind J. Marsh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-03-14
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780521498722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, leading western specialists and Russian and Ukrainian feminists examine how gender has shaped Russian and Ukrainian history from the twelfth century to the present. In particular, they analyse the current backlash against women's emancipation. Using new archival materials and the insights of feminist theory, the contributors explore the relevance of gender equality and difference in Russian history. They find that women have not merely submitted to the patriarchal system, but instead have found creative ways of resisting it. Chapters focusing on contemporary Russia discuss abortion, pornography, sexual minorities, young women's lifestyles, the impact of economic reform on women and the development of the women's movement. This book will be of interest to students and specialists in Russian, Ukrainian and women's studies, as well as to historians, political scientists, sociologists and economists.
Author: Suvi Salmenniemi
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415674980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines civic activism, democratization and gender in contemporary Russian society. It describes the character and central organizing principles of Russian democratic civic life, considering how it has developed since the Soviet period, and analyzing the goals and identities of important civic groups - including trade unions - and the meanings they have acquired in the context of wider Russian society. In particular, Suvi Salmenniemi investigates the gender dimensions, both masculine and feminine, of socio-political participation in Russia, considering what kinds of gendered meanings are given to civic organizations and formal politics, and how femininity and masculinity are represented in this context. Exploring the role of state institutions in the development of democratic civic life, the volume shows how, under the increasingly authoritarian Putin regime and its policy of 'managed democracy', independent civic activism is both thriving yet at the same constrained. Based on extensive fieldwork research, it provides much needed information on how Russians themselves view these developments, both from the perspective of civic activists and the local authorities.
