| Description |
xvii, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Women -- Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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Russia (Federation) |
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Social conditions. |
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Women -- Former Soviet republics -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Russia (Federation) -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
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Women -- Former Soviet republics -- Economic conditions.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Buckley, Mary (Mary E. A.)
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| ISBN |
0521565308 paperback |
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0521563208 hardback |
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