nation building, economic survival, and civic activism
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kuehnast, Kathleen > (ed.)
- Creator
- Nechemias, Carol > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Hemment, Julie
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B5928 - B
- Thesaurus
- burgerschap, sociale klasse, seksueel geweld, betaalde arbeid, gezinnen, politiek, landen in transitie, Oost-Europa, USSR, bundel
- Description
- Women in the former Soviet Union, despite a legacy of high levels of education and labor force participation, face a host of new problems. Neo-familialist ideologies have arisen, with a longing for the return of traditional families. A gendered division of labor in the market economy has pushed women to the bottom of the pyramid of small businesses as bazaar merchants. And in the political arena, men dominate formal government structures and political parties, while women dominate the realm of non-governmental organizations. .Post-Soviet Women Encountering Transition studies these problems through a series of essays by social scientists from the United States, Europe, and the former Soviet Union, going beyond coverage of Russia and ethnic Russians to treat Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and the Tatar and Sakha Republics of Russia.