Author: Kathleen Kuehnast
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Among the challenges eastern European women face are ideologies that sharply criticize Soviet-style emancipation and advocate a return to traditional families; a gendered division of labor in the market economy, with women flooding the bottom part of the pyramid of small businesses as bazaar merchants; and a gendered division of labor in the politi.
Post-Soviet Women Encountering Transition
Author: Kathleen Kuehnast
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Among the challenges eastern European women face are ideologies that sharply criticize Soviet-style emancipation and advocate a return to traditional families; a gendered division of labor in the market economy, with women flooding the bottom part of the pyramid of small businesses as bazaar merchants; and a gendered division of labor in the politi.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Among the challenges eastern European women face are ideologies that sharply criticize Soviet-style emancipation and advocate a return to traditional families; a gendered division of labor in the market economy, with women flooding the bottom part of the pyramid of small businesses as bazaar merchants; and a gendered division of labor in the politi.
Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia
Author: Michele Rivkin-Fish
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253217677
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Russia's maternal health crisis and postsocialist transition examined through ethnographic observation in clinics and hospitals.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253217677
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Russia's maternal health crisis and postsocialist transition examined through ethnographic observation in clinics and hospitals.
Living Gender after Communism
Author: Janet Elise Johnson
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025311229X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
How has the collapse of communism across Europe and Eurasia changed gender? In addition to acknowledging the huge costs that fell heavily on women, Living Gender after Communism suggests that moving away from communism in Europe and Eurasia has provided an opportunity for gender to multiply, from varieties of neo-traditionalism to feminisms, from overt negotiation of femininity to denials of gender. This development, in turn, has enabled some women in the region to construct their own gendered identities for their own political, economic, or social purposes. Beginning with an understanding of gender as both a society-wide institution that regulates people's lives and a cultural "toolkit" which individuals and groups may use to subvert or "transvalue" the sex/gender system, the contributors to this volume provide detailed case studies from Belarus, Bosnia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine. This collaboration between young scholars -- most from postcommunist states -- and experts in the fields of gender studies and postcommunism combines intimate knowledge of the area with sophisticated gender analysis to examine just how much gender realities have shifted in the region. Contributors are Anna Brzozowska, Karen Dawisha, Nanette Funk, Ewa Grigar, Azra Hromadzic, Janet Elise Johnson, Anne-Marie Kramer, Tania Rands Lyon, Jean C. Robinson, Iulia Shevchenko, Svitlana Taraban, and Shannon Woodcock.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025311229X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
How has the collapse of communism across Europe and Eurasia changed gender? In addition to acknowledging the huge costs that fell heavily on women, Living Gender after Communism suggests that moving away from communism in Europe and Eurasia has provided an opportunity for gender to multiply, from varieties of neo-traditionalism to feminisms, from overt negotiation of femininity to denials of gender. This development, in turn, has enabled some women in the region to construct their own gendered identities for their own political, economic, or social purposes. Beginning with an understanding of gender as both a society-wide institution that regulates people's lives and a cultural "toolkit" which individuals and groups may use to subvert or "transvalue" the sex/gender system, the contributors to this volume provide detailed case studies from Belarus, Bosnia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine. This collaboration between young scholars -- most from postcommunist states -- and experts in the fields of gender studies and postcommunism combines intimate knowledge of the area with sophisticated gender analysis to examine just how much gender realities have shifted in the region. Contributors are Anna Brzozowska, Karen Dawisha, Nanette Funk, Ewa Grigar, Azra Hromadzic, Janet Elise Johnson, Anne-Marie Kramer, Tania Rands Lyon, Jean C. Robinson, Iulia Shevchenko, Svitlana Taraban, and Shannon Woodcock.
Engendering Transformation
Author: Heike Kahlert
Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
ISBN: 3866496508
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Gender relations in post-socialist countries Even more than 20 years after turning away from socialism, Eastern European and Central Asian states are still characterized by the regime change in the fields of work, politics, and culture. What are the effects and implications that this change has produced for gender relations in post-socialist countries? And what does this mean for the situation of women and men living there today? In this context gender relations are especially interesting since gender equality was perceived as a political goal and, moreover, a given reality in socialism. The articles in this volume show the changes as well as the stability of gender relations and power structures during the transformation process and in post-socialist times. They shed light on topics like labour market policies, fertility, political representation of women or male artists concerned with gender issues covering the geographical space from Hungary and Poland over Bulgaria and Romania to Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Beyond that, some of the descriptions and analyses challenge understood certainties about how to create gender equality and about the women and men living in post-soviet regions today.
Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
ISBN: 3866496508
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Gender relations in post-socialist countries Even more than 20 years after turning away from socialism, Eastern European and Central Asian states are still characterized by the regime change in the fields of work, politics, and culture. What are the effects and implications that this change has produced for gender relations in post-socialist countries? And what does this mean for the situation of women and men living there today? In this context gender relations are especially interesting since gender equality was perceived as a political goal and, moreover, a given reality in socialism. The articles in this volume show the changes as well as the stability of gender relations and power structures during the transformation process and in post-socialist times. They shed light on topics like labour market policies, fertility, political representation of women or male artists concerned with gender issues covering the geographical space from Hungary and Poland over Bulgaria and Romania to Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Beyond that, some of the descriptions and analyses challenge understood certainties about how to create gender equality and about the women and men living in post-soviet regions today.
Women and Transformation in Russia
Author: Aino Saarinen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135020345
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This 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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135020345
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This 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.
Current Debates in History & Politics
Author: M. Ali Sağlam
Publisher: IJOPEC
ISBN: 1912503352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
In the history section, the subject of health was handled with two of the studies focusing on the war period and the other focusing on Antique Greece period. In this context, while war as a political instrument and attitudes of social groups towards its influences were handles, the field of institutional construction was also simultaneously focused by one of the articles. The article, which deals with the Antique Greece period, alongside the place of the god, goddesses, mythological characters and medicus in the social structure of Greece society, their positions in the sphere of health were being handled. Within the section of politics, there are seven different articles investigates such different subjects as political parties, the importance of the gender roles, religion and identity matters relating with the Turkish right, govermentality regarding to genetic knowledge and urbanization, and terror typologies. Consequently, the papers in the book draw attention to different aspects of history and politics. We believe that such studies would contribute to the development of debates in social sciences and encourage interdisciplinary approaches.
Publisher: IJOPEC
ISBN: 1912503352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
In the history section, the subject of health was handled with two of the studies focusing on the war period and the other focusing on Antique Greece period. In this context, while war as a political instrument and attitudes of social groups towards its influences were handles, the field of institutional construction was also simultaneously focused by one of the articles. The article, which deals with the Antique Greece period, alongside the place of the god, goddesses, mythological characters and medicus in the social structure of Greece society, their positions in the sphere of health were being handled. Within the section of politics, there are seven different articles investigates such different subjects as political parties, the importance of the gender roles, religion and identity matters relating with the Turkish right, govermentality regarding to genetic knowledge and urbanization, and terror typologies. Consequently, the papers in the book draw attention to different aspects of history and politics. We believe that such studies would contribute to the development of debates in social sciences and encourage interdisciplinary approaches.
Militarizing Men
Author: Maya Eichler
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804778361
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A state's ability to maintain mandatory conscription and wage war rests on the idea that a "real man" is one who has served in the military. Yet masculinity has no inherent ties to militarism. The link between men and the military, argues Maya Eichler, must be produced and reproduced in order to fill the ranks, engage in combat, and mobilize the population behind war. In the context of Russia's post-communist transition and the Chechen wars, men's militarization has been challenged and reinforced. Eichler uncovers the challenges by exploring widespread draft evasion and desertion, anti-draft and anti-war activism led by soldiers' mothers, and the general lack of popular support for the Chechen wars. However, the book also identifies channels through which militarized gender identities have been reproduced. Eichler's empirical and theoretical study of masculinities in international relations applies for the first time the concept of "militarized masculinity," developed by feminist IR scholars, to the case of Russia.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804778361
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A state's ability to maintain mandatory conscription and wage war rests on the idea that a "real man" is one who has served in the military. Yet masculinity has no inherent ties to militarism. The link between men and the military, argues Maya Eichler, must be produced and reproduced in order to fill the ranks, engage in combat, and mobilize the population behind war. In the context of Russia's post-communist transition and the Chechen wars, men's militarization has been challenged and reinforced. Eichler uncovers the challenges by exploring widespread draft evasion and desertion, anti-draft and anti-war activism led by soldiers' mothers, and the general lack of popular support for the Chechen wars. However, the book also identifies channels through which militarized gender identities have been reproduced. Eichler's empirical and theoretical study of masculinities in international relations applies for the first time the concept of "militarized masculinity," developed by feminist IR scholars, to the case of Russia.
Gazing at Welfare, Gender and Agency in Post-socialist Countries
Author: Maija Jäppinen
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443826138
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The volume presents a new and unique view of welfare in Russia and Eastern European countries from an intersectional perspective of welfare, gender and agency. Since the collapse of socialism, the welfare structures of the post-socialist states have experienced large and rapid changes. The discussions on the reforming welfare models serve as the integrating theme for the volume. The authors discuss past and current developments and make comparisons in time and space–between the early 1990s and late 2000s and between post-socialist and transitional countries. Welfare and political democratization are analyzed on the one hand as structures and processes and on the other hand as cultural meanings and through agency, which all are strongly gendered. Macro-level analyses and in-depth case studies by scholars from different countries and disciplines provide a wide and multilayered picture of welfare developments and gendered practices of social services, caregiving and civic activism, among others. Special attention is given to research methodologies, particularly on fieldwork and micro-level understanding of the related topics. The contributors come from social and political sciences and from both former socialist and “Western” countries – from Russia and Slovenia as well as the US, the UK, Germany and Finland. In their studies, the authors examine various regions of Russia and other post-socialist countries, such as the Czech Republic, Romania, Moldova and Slovenia.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443826138
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The volume presents a new and unique view of welfare in Russia and Eastern European countries from an intersectional perspective of welfare, gender and agency. Since the collapse of socialism, the welfare structures of the post-socialist states have experienced large and rapid changes. The discussions on the reforming welfare models serve as the integrating theme for the volume. The authors discuss past and current developments and make comparisons in time and space–between the early 1990s and late 2000s and between post-socialist and transitional countries. Welfare and political democratization are analyzed on the one hand as structures and processes and on the other hand as cultural meanings and through agency, which all are strongly gendered. Macro-level analyses and in-depth case studies by scholars from different countries and disciplines provide a wide and multilayered picture of welfare developments and gendered practices of social services, caregiving and civic activism, among others. Special attention is given to research methodologies, particularly on fieldwork and micro-level understanding of the related topics. The contributors come from social and political sciences and from both former socialist and “Western” countries – from Russia and Slovenia as well as the US, the UK, Germany and Finland. In their studies, the authors examine various regions of Russia and other post-socialist countries, such as the Czech Republic, Romania, Moldova and Slovenia.
Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics
Author: Rafis Abazov
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313056188
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan won their independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Now they are emerging from the shadow of dominance and are subjects of intense interest from the West. The modern culture and customs of the various peoples in these geopolitical hotspots, straddling the far reaches of Europe into Asia, are revealed to a general audience for the first time. This will be the must-have volume for a broad, authoritative overview of these traditional civilizations as they cope with globalization.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313056188
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan won their independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Now they are emerging from the shadow of dominance and are subjects of intense interest from the West. The modern culture and customs of the various peoples in these geopolitical hotspots, straddling the far reaches of Europe into Asia, are revealed to a general audience for the first time. This will be the must-have volume for a broad, authoritative overview of these traditional civilizations as they cope with globalization.
Building States and Markets
Author: G. Özcan
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230296955
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The transition economies of Central Asia are faced with the most daunting challenge of modern capitalism: the move from vassal pseudo-states of the former Soviet Union to competitive nations. This book is the first to explore the first 15 years of economic emergence, and assess the capabilities of these countries to transform their economies.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230296955
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The transition economies of Central Asia are faced with the most daunting challenge of modern capitalism: the move from vassal pseudo-states of the former Soviet Union to competitive nations. This book is the first to explore the first 15 years of economic emergence, and assess the capabilities of these countries to transform their economies.