Organizing women in contemporary Russia : engendering transition / / Valerie Sperling [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Sperling Valerie
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 303 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 305.42/0947
• Soggetto topico: Feminism - Russia (Federation); Women - Russia (Federation) - Social conditions
• Soggetto geografico: Russia (Federation) Social conditions 1991-
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-291) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Russian women's movement groups and activists -- ; 2. Analyzing social movements -- ; 3. Feminism, femininity, and sexism: socio-cultural opportunities and obstacles to women's movement organizing -- ; 4. "Democracy without women is not democracy!": political opportunities and obstacles to women's movement organizing -- ; 5. "Unemployment has a woman's face ... ": economic opportunities and obstacles to women's movement organizing -- ; 6. Remembrance of things past: the impact of political history on women's movement organizing -- ; 7. International influences on the Russian women's movement.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the contemporary Russian women's movement and of the social, political, economic, historical, and international contexts that surround it. Valerie Sperling paints a vivid portrait of the women's movement's formation and development, paying particular attention to the key challenges facing a social movement in post-communist society, including the virtual absence of civil society, constant flux in political institutions, wrenching economic changes, and the movement's own status in a changing transnational environment. The author also addresses the specific challenges facing women's organizations by discussing societal attitudes towards feminism in Russia. Based on participant observation, primary source materials, and dozens of interviews conducted in Moscow (as well as two smaller Russian cities), the narrative brings alive the activists' struggle to build a social movement under difficult conditions, and sheds new light on the troubled and complex process of Russia's democratization.
• Titolo autorizzato: Organizing women in contemporary Russia
• ISBN: 1-107-11776-3; 1-280-42076-6; 0-511-17207-9; 0-511-04847-5; 0-511-15001-6; 0-511-30996-1; 0-511-48908-0; 0-511-00484-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454854903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II