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Title Post-Soviet women encountering transition : nation building, economic survival, and civic activism / edited by Kathleen Kuehnast and Carol Nechemias.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2004]
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Description xiii, 357 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: women navigating change in post-Soviet currents / Kathleen Kuehnast and Carol Nechemias -- Part I. Gender and nation building. Strong women, weak state : family politics and nation building in post-Soviet Ukraine / Tatiana Zhurzhenko -- The gender of sovereignty : constructing statehood, nation, and gender regimes in post-Soviet Tatarstan / Katherine E. Graney -- Engendering citizenship in postcommunist Uzbekistan / David Abramson -- Conceptualizing gender, nation, and class in post-Soviet Belarus / Elena Gapova -- Part II. Women and rural household economies. Feminizing the new silk road : women traders in rural Kazakhstan / Cynthia Werner -- The gendered nature of Viliui Sakha post-Soviet adaptation / Susan A. Crate -- Part III. Democratization and women's civic activism. Women, building civil society, and democratization in post-Soviet Azerbaijan / Nayereh Tohidi -- Women's political activism in Russia : the case of Samara / Ludmila Popkova -- Two worlds apart : the lack of integration between women's informal networks and nongovernmental organizations in Uzbekistan / Andrea Berg -- Sisterhood versus the "moral" Russian state : the postcommunist politics of rape / Janet Elise Johnson -- Part IV. Assistance encounters. Meeting the challenge together? Russian grassroots women's organizations and the shortcomings of Western aid / Rebecca Kay -- Working at the local-global intersection : the challenges facing women in Armenia's nongovernmental organization sector / Armine Ishkanian -- Gender and democracy : strategies for engagement and dialogue on women's issues after socialism in St. Petersburg / Michele Rivkin-Fish -- Strategizing gender and development : action research and ethnographic responsibility in the Russian provinces / Julie Hemment.
Subject Women -- Former Soviet republics -- Social conditions.
Women.
Social conditions.
Women -- Former Soviet republics -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Women.
Womyn.
Added Author Kuehnast, Kathleen R.
Nechemias, Carol, 1947-
ISBN 0801879183 cloth alkaline paper