Organizing women in contemporary Russia : engendering transition /

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Author / Creator:Sperling, Valerie.
Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Description:x, 303 p. : ill., 1 map ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4112395
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ISBN:0521660173 (hard)
0521609634 (pbk.)
0521669634 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-291) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Russian womenÆs movement groups and activists
  • 2. Analyzing social movements
  • 3. Feminism, femininity, and sexism: socio-cultural opportunities and obstacles to womenÆs movement organizing
  • 4. Democracy without women is not democracy: political opportunities and obstacles to womenÆs movement organizing
  • 5. Unemployment has a womanÆs face: economic opportunities and obstacles to womenÆs movement organizing
  • 6. Remembrance of things past: the impact of political history on womenÆs movement organizing
  • 7. International influences on the Russian womenÆs movement
  • Conclusion