Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Note on the Translation and Transliteration of Terms
Introduction
The Orange Revolution
The Collective
Methodology
1 Performing Protest: Sexual Dissent Reinvented
I. Introduction
II. Protest after 2004: Beyond Orange
Who Is Femen?
Staging Transgression
Initial Critical Receptions
Soviet Precursors
Happenings
Design of the Colour Revolutions
III. Archetype and Caricature: The Prostitute
Capitalism and the USSR
The Natasha

Enlightenment Fashionings of "The East"
The Amazon
Romanticism and Taras Shevchenko
The Serf
IV. The Mass Subject and the Public Sphere
Pop Culture Contexts: Chervona Ruta, Ruslana, Serduchka
Anachronism
Cultural Hybridity
V. East/West Cultural Stereotypes: A Parody of Media Consumption
VI. Conclusion: Double Parody
2 An Anatomy of Activism: Virtual Body Rhetoric in Digital Protest Texts
I. Introduction
II. Internationalization: The State and Pussy Riot
Virtual and Real Spaces
III. The Body and the Information Commodity
Feminist Media Performance

Overidentification
IV. Rhetorical Scripts
Genre
Dystopian Satire
Semblance and Rebellion
V. Representation and Circulation
Exposure and Desire
Mediating the Gaze
Image / Counter Image
VI. Critical Receptions: "Dissidence" East/West
VII. Conclusion
3 The Image Is the Frame: Photography and the Feminist Collective Ofenzywa
I. Introduction
II. The Many Faces of March 8: The State and "The Woman Question
III. Rhetorical Contexts
Ofenzywa's Manifesto
The Politics of "Everyday Life"
IV. Time in the Photo Series 32 Gogol St.
Form and Subjectivity

Ruin, Materialism, Memory
V. 32 Gogol St. as Allegory
Spatial Textures
The Soviet Communal Apartment versus the Post-Soviet Tenement Home
Ontology and Representation
Civil Imagination
VI. Depictions of Home: A Room of One's Own
Citizenship and the Private Sphere
Normative versus Non-Normative Time
VII. Resignifying Gender in Kyiv's Urban Environment
VIII. Conclusion: Ethics and Competing Rhetorics
4 Museum of Congresses: Biopolitics and the Self in Kyiv's HudRada and REP Visual Art Collectives
I. Introduction
II. Art and the State

III. Censorship and Negative Space
Materialist Aesthetics and the Notion of Freedom
Recodings
IV. Inside the Assembly: Marginality in Draftsmen's Congress
Towards "Agoraphilia"
State and Nation in (Anti)Representational Art
V. Biopolitics in Disputed Territory
Transparency versus Invisibility
VI. Conclusion: The Politics of Display
5 Bad Myth: Picturing Intergenerational Experiences of Revolution and War
I. Introduction
II. Urban Space as Medium for Aesthetic Experiment
The School of Kyiv
Monuments, Museums, Soviet Architecture
Data and Knowledge

III. Nonconformist Women
an Unofficial Archive