@article{1438069,
      recid = {1438069},
      author = {Tarkhanova, Oleksandra,},
      title = {Compulsory motherhood, paternalistic state? : Ukrainian  gender politics and the subject of woman /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {Essential reading for scholars of gender and social policy  studies in Eastern Europe, this book is an exciting  intervention in feminist critiques of the effects of  neoliberalism on the gender dimensions of social policy  debates in post-socialist states. Tarkhanova's diachronic  perspective, tracking gender policy in Ukraine from 1985 to  2017, provides crucial insights for understanding  "anti-gender," anti-feminist movements in contemporary  Ukraine and neighboring countries. Key policy areas under  focus are family law and state welfare, the Labor Code, and  women's rights and gender equality. Crucially, Tarkhanova  draws on her extended Ukrainian case study to engage with  broad feminist critiques of neoliberalism, extending the  case's relevance far beyond discussions of gender policy in  Central and East Europe.-Sarah D. Phillips, Professor of  Anthropology, Director of the Robert F. Byrnes Russian and  East European Institute, Indiana University, USA This book  examines Ukrainian state gender politics and investigates  how gendered subject positions and policy discourses are  constructed within and through social policies. Set against  the backdrop of the post-Soviet transformations,  nation-building, neoliberalization, and post-Maidan  political transformations, policy and discursive changes  reflect and reproduce the gender norms that not only derive  from these ideological processes but also actively  legitimize and enable them. This book considers how the  relations between the state and woman-citizen are changing:  from socialist paternalism to nationalist affective bond  and neoliberal sacrificial citizenship, which conceals  women within families but also deeply relies on their  unpaid work. The book brings the Ukrainian case into the  European debate on conservative neoliberal transformations  and anti-gender political sentiment, and by doing that,  advances the feminist theorization on neoliberalism. This  book will be of particular interest to scholars in gender  politics, sociology of policy, and post-socialist or  Eastern European studies. Oleksandra Tarkhanova is  Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St. Gallen, Center  for Governance and Culture in Europe, where she works on  social rights and citizenship of people in the war-affected  regions of Eastern Ukraine},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1438069},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73355-1},
}