Post-Soviet women encountering transition : nation building, economic survival, and civic activism /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kuehnast, Kathleen R., Nechemias, Carol, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Baltimore : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Johns Hopkins University Press, [2004]
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: women navigating change in post-Soviet currents / Kathleen Kuehnast and Carol Nechemias
  • Part I. Gender and nation building. Strong women, weak state: family politics and nation building in post-Soviet Ukraine / Tatiana Zhurzhenko
  • The gender of sovereignty: constructing statehood, nation, and gender regimes in post-Soviet Tatarstan / Katherine E. Graney
  • Engendering citizenship in postcommunist Uzbekistan / David Abramson
  • Conceptualizing gender, nation, and class in post-Soviet Belarus / Elena Gapova
  • Part II. Women and rural household economies. Feminizing the new silk road: women traders in rural Kazakhstan / Cynthia Werner
  • The gendered nature of Viliui Sakha post-Soviet adaptation / Susan A. Crate
  • Part III. Democratization and women's civic activism. Women, building civil society, and democratization in post-soviet Azerbaijan / Nayereh Tohidi
  • Women's political activism in Russia: the case of Samara / Ludmila Popkova
  • Two worlds apart: the lack of integration between women's informal networks and nongovernmental organizations in Uzbekistan / Andrea Berg
  • Sisterhood versus the "moral" Russian state: the postcommunist politics of rape / Janet Elise Johnson
  • Part IV. Assistance encounters. Meeting the challenge together? Russian grassroots women's organizations and the shortcomings of Western aid / Rebecca Kay
  • Working at the local-global intersection: the challenges facing women in Armenia's nongovernmental organization sector / Armine Ishkanian
  • Gender and democracy: strategies for engagement and dialogue on women's issues after socialism in St. Petersburg / Michele Rivkin-Fish
  • Strategizing gender and development: action research and ethnographic responsibility in the Russian provinces / Julie Hemment.