Russian Women and Their Organizations: Gender, Discrimination and Grassroots Women's Organizations, 1991-96

By Rebecca Kay

Grassroots Russian women's organizations faced multiple challenges in the early 1990s. Like their members, they were confronted with both potentially hostile attitudes and numerous practical difficulties. Post-Soviet ideologies of gender difference produced a gender climate which was particularly unsympathetic to female activism in support of other women. This book presents a detailed study of grassroots Russian women's organizations in 1991-96, against the background of a careful analysis of gender relations and attitudes to women's place in post-Soviet Russian society.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312228651
• ISBN13: 9780312228651
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.9"