Post-Soviet women from the Baltic to Central Asia

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 oth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Buckley, Mary (Mary E. A.) (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press 1997.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Victims and agents : gender in post-Soviet states / Mary Buckley
  • Do Russian women want to work? / Sarah Ashwin and Elain Bowers
  • Rural women and the impact of economic change / Sue Bridger
  • Women and the culture of entrepreneurship / Marta Bruno
  • Images of an ideal woman : perceptions of Russian womanhood through the media, education, and women's own eyes / Rebecca Kay
  • She was asking for it : rape and domestic violence against women / Lynne Attwood
  • For the sake of the children : gender and migration in the former Soviet Union / Hilary Pilkington
  • When the fighting is over : the soldiers' mothers and the Afghan madonnas / Kathryn Pinnick
  • Adaptation of the Soviet Women's Committee : deputies' voices from Women of Russia / Mary Buckley
  • Women's groups in Russia / Olga Lipovskaya
  • Women in changing societies : Latvia and Lithuania / Nijole White
  • Progress on hold : the conservative faces of women in Ukraine / Solomea Pavlychko
  • Out of the kitchen into the crossfire : women in independent Armenia / Nora Dudwick
  • Women's peace train in Georgia / Tamara Dragadze
  • Between tradition and modernity : the dilemma facing contemporary Central Asian women / Shirin Akiner.