Barnes & Noble Russian Women and their Organizations: Gender, Discrimination and Grassroots Women's Organizations, 1991-96 at Hamilton Place in Chattanooga, TN
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 inn 19916, against the background of a careful analysis of gender relations and attitudes to women's place in post-Soviet Russian society.Author Biography: Rebecca Kay is Lecturer at the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham.
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 inn 19916, against the background of a careful analysis of gender relations and attitudes to women's place in post-Soviet Russian society.Author Biography: Rebecca Kay is Lecturer at the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham.
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