Research Catalog

Title

Women's activism in contemporary Russia / Linda Racioppi and Katherine O'Sullivan See.

Author

Racioppi, Linda.

Publication

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

See, Katherine O'Sullivan.

Description

xiii, 277 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Through in-depth interviews with activists, the authors provide a broad and thorough introduction to the emerging women's movement and women's organizations in Russia. Linda Racioppi and Katherine O'Sullivan See focus on the development of women's activism in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia and the challenges activists face in a time of resurgent nationalism and turmoil over democratic reform." "Women's Activism in Contemporary Russia includes a concise history of women's situation in tsarist and Soviet Russia, which shows how their ability to organize was constrained by social strictures and state policies. The authors analyze how the state-sponsored Soviet Women's Committee and new groups like the Independent Women's Forum, the Women's League, and the International Institute for Entrepreneurial Development responded to the challenges and opportunities of the transition. They 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."--Jacket.

Subject

• Women > Russia (Federation) > Societies and clubs
• Feminism > Russia (Federation)
• Feminists > Russia (Federation) > Interviews
• Feminism
• Feminists
• Women > Societies and clubs
• Frauenbewegung
• Frauenverband
• Vrouwenbeweging
• Vrouwenorganisaties
• Politieke verandering
• Feminism > Russia (Federation)
• Feminists > Russia (Federation)
• Feminism > Russia
• Women's rights > Russia
• Russia (Federation)
• Russland

Genre/Form

• Interview
• interviews.
• Interviews
• Interviews.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Women's Activism in Historical Context. Tsarist Autocracy and Constraints on Women's Activism. The Soviet Order. Elvira Novikova -- Ch. 3. Women and the Transition. Economic and Political Transformations. Women and the Economy. Women and Political Voice. Organizing Women as Politics. Alternative "Emancipations" Natalia Belokopytova. The State and Ideological Emancipation -- Ch. 4. The Union of Women of Russia and Alevtina Fedulova. The Soviet Women's Committee. The Committee and the Transition. Alevtina Fedulova -- Ch. 5. The Zhensovety and Olga Bessolova. Zhensovety. Olga Bessolova -- Ch. 6. The Center for Gender Studies, the Independent Women's Forum, and Anastasia Posadskaya. The Center for Gender Studies.

ISBN

• 1566395208
• 9781566395205
• 1566395216
• 9781566395212

LCCN

96036093

OCLC

• ocm35235642
• 35235642
• SCSB-2133771

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library