Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 316 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511585197
Content:
This volume takes a systematic look at the position of women in the post-Soviet states of the former USSR. The first focuses on the economy, society and polity of the Russian Federation; the second gives specialists' insights into social, political, economic and military developments in the other republics of the former Soviet Union. The book pays special attention to women's own perceptions of their lives. How do factory workers, street vendors and rural workers view their jobs? How do the women who served in Afghanistan, migrants, politicians, political activists, soldiers' mothers and feminists portray their worlds. What strategies of coping have women devised to deal with no electricity in Armenia, with unwelcome sexual advances from fathers-in-law and with violence from partners in Russia? Why did women in Georgia travel on a peace train? How has war affected lives in the Caucasus and in Central Asia? This book explores strategies of coping and forms of adaptation, noting that women are agents, as well as victims
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Victims and agents : gender in post-Soviet states
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Do Russian women want to work?
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Rural women and the impact of economic change
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Women and the culture of entrepreneurship
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Images of an ideal woman : perceptions of Russian womanhood through the media, education, and women's own eyes
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"She was asking for it" : rape and domestic violence against women
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"For the sake of the children" : gender and migration in the former Soviet Union
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When the fighting is over : the soldiers' mothers and the Afghan madonnas
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Adaptation of the Soviet Women's Committee : deputies' voices from "Women of Russia"
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Women's groups in Russia
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Women in changing societies : Latvia and Lithuania
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Progress on hold : the conservative faces of women in Ukraine
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Out of the kitchen into the crossfire : women in independent Armenia
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Women's peace train in Georgia
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Between tradition and modernity : the dilemma facing contemporary Central Asian women
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521563208
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521565301
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521563208
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511585197
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