@article{1482875,
      recid = {1482875},
      author = {Sätre, Ann-Marie, and Gradskova, I͡Ulii͡a, and  Vladimirova, Vladislava,},
      title = {Post-Soviet women : new challenges and ways to empowerment  /},
      pages = {1 online resource (324 pages) :},
      abstract = {Inevitably in the shadow of the Russian invasion of  Ukraine, the question Russia watchers will ask is where the  soldiers mothers are who took to the streets to protest the  Chechen wars. In its analysis of how the conservative turn  in politics of the last two decades has undermined the  steps made towards gender equality and the empowerment of  women in the USSR successor states, this anthology provides  some convincing answers. The story is not all gloom. The  impressively researched essays, which introduce the reader  to a broad range of case studies, also tell of the ways  that women are fighting back within the constraints they  face by an emboldened patriarchy across the region.  --Judith Pallot, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford,  UK This volume explores how different post-Soviet countries  have reinterpreted and diverged from the Soviet gender  roles and values. It synthesizes results from multiple  empirical studies that attend to increasingly conservative  features of political governance in the region,  particularly the authoritarian regime in Russia. The  authors consider diverse enactments of ideologies, policies  and practices of gender equality and womens rights in  crucial areas, such as legislative institutions, media, and  social activism. The volume contributes to understanding  post-Soviet societal dynamics relevant to United Nations  Sustainable Development Goal 5, which emphasizes gender  equality as part of fundamental human rights. Ann-Mari Stre  is Professor in Eurasian Studies and Director of Research  at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala  University, Sweden. Yulia Gradskova is Associate Professor  of History and Research Coordinator at the Centre for  Baltic and East European Studies at Sdertrn University,  Sweden. Vladislava Vladimirova is Associate Professor of  Cultural Anthropology at the Institute for Russian and  Eurasian Studies and the Department of Cultural  Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University, Sweden.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1482875},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38066-2},
}