Post-Soviet Women

Chapter 1: Post-Soviet Women: New Challenges and Ways to Empowerment - Introduction.- Part I: Women’s positions in the Post-Soviet Societies.- Chapter 2: From defending women’s rights in the “whole world” to silence about Russia’s predatory war? The (geo)politics of the Eurasian Women’s Forums in the context of “traditional values”.- Chapter 3: Debates around domestic violence prevention law in Russia - pro and contra.- Chapter 4: The Private Remains Non-Political: Gender Equality in a Non-Western Context: The Example of Armenia.- Chapter 5: General Trends in Gender Inequality in Post –Soviet Central Asia.- Chapter 6: Women’s rights in Central Asian countries in the grip of retraditionalization and neoliberal capitalism.- Chapter 7: Why was there no FEMEN in the Baltic states? Some preliminary observations Matthew Kott.- Part II: Negotiating Women’s Roles.- Chapter 8: Being a Woman and Russian National Identity: Discourses and Representations through the Lenses of Russian Conservative and Nationalist Organizations.- Chapter 9: Female parliamentarians in Armenia: from traditional theme-takers to the new theme-givers.- Chapter 10: Valkyries & Madonnas: Constructing femininity during the Russo-Ukrainian War.- Chapter 11: Women cultivating love in the Belarusian countryside.- Part III: Women’s Agency, New Movements and Activisms.- Chapter 12: They beat us, we fly.’  Indigenous Activism among Women in the Russian North.- Chapter 13: Women’s Activism in Ukraine: Artistic Method in Early Civic Documentations of the Ukraine-Russia War.- Chapter 14: Generations of Feminist Translations: Connecting Russophone Academic and Activist Feminist Translation Debates across the 2000s and 2010s.- Chapter 15: Balancing between global trends: what happens with women empowerment in Azerbaijan?. Chapter 16: Women’s Responses to the Conservative Wave in Russian Social Policy.