As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself as a nation-state in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering, adjusting, resisting and transforming the new economic, social and political order. In Gender in Georgia, editors Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston bring together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the socio-political and cultural conditions that have shaped gender dynamics in Georgia from the late 19th century to the present. In doing so, they provide the first-ever woman-centered collection of research on Georgia, offering a feminist critique of power in its…mehr
As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself as a nation-state in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering, adjusting, resisting and transforming the new economic, social and political order. In Gender in Georgia, editors Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston bring together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the socio-political and cultural conditions that have shaped gender dynamics in Georgia from the late 19th century to the present. In doing so, they provide the first-ever woman-centered collection of research on Georgia, offering a feminist critique of power in its many manifestations, and an assessment of women's political agency in Georgia.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Alisse Waterston is Presidential Scholar and Professor of Anthropology at John Jay College, City University of New York. She is the author most recently of Light in Dark Times: The Human Search for Meaning, illustrated by Charlotte Corden (University of Toronto Press, 2020). She is past-President of the American Anthropological Association (2015-2017), and Editor of the Intimate Ethnography series (Berghahn Books).
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List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Contextualizing Gender in Georgia: Nation, Culture, Power and Politics Alisse Waterston PART I: POWER AND POLITICS Chapter 1. Pioneer Women: "Herstories" of Feminist Movements in Georgia Lela Gaprindashvili Chapter 2. "The Country of the Happiest Women"?: Ideology and Gender in Soviet Georgia Maia Barkaia Chapter 3. "The West" and Georgian "Difference": Discursive Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Georgia Tamar Tskhadadze Chapter 4. Overcoming the "Delay" Paradigm: New Approaches to Socialist Women's Activism in Georgia and Poland Magdalena Grabowska Chapter 5. Women's Political Representation in Post-Soviet Georgia Ketevan Chkheidze PART II: VIOLENCE Chapter 6. The Domestic Violence Challenge to Soviet Women's Empowerment Policies Tamar Sabedashvili Chapter 7. Domestic Violence in Georgia: State and Community Responses, 2006-2015 Nino Javakhishvili and Nino Butsashvili Chapter 8. Remembering the Past: Narratives of Displaced Women from Abkhazia Nargiza Arjevanidze Chapter 9. Displacement, State Violence and Gender Roles: The Case of Internally Displaced and Violence-Affected Georgian Women Joanna Regulska, Beth Mitchneck, and Peter Kabachnik PART III: IDENTITIES, REPRESENTATIONS, AND RESISTANCE Chapter 10. Images of "The New Woman" in Soviet Georgian Silent Films Salome Tsopurashvili Chapter 11. Gender Equality: Still a Disputed Value in Georgian Society Nana Sumbadze Chapter 12. Georgian Women Migrants: Experiences Abroad and at Home Tamar Zurabishvili, Maia Mestvirishvili and Tinatin Zurabishvili Chapter 13. Being Transgender in Georgia Natia Gvianishvili Chapter 14. Tracing the LGBT Movement in the Republic of Georgia: Stories of Activists Anna Rekhviashvili Afterword Elizabeth Cullen Dunn Index
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Contextualizing Gender in Georgia: Nation, Culture, Power and Politics Alisse Waterston PART I: POWER AND POLITICS Chapter 1. Pioneer Women: "Herstories" of Feminist Movements in Georgia Lela Gaprindashvili Chapter 2. "The Country of the Happiest Women"?: Ideology and Gender in Soviet Georgia Maia Barkaia Chapter 3. "The West" and Georgian "Difference": Discursive Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Georgia Tamar Tskhadadze Chapter 4. Overcoming the "Delay" Paradigm: New Approaches to Socialist Women's Activism in Georgia and Poland Magdalena Grabowska Chapter 5. Women's Political Representation in Post-Soviet Georgia Ketevan Chkheidze PART II: VIOLENCE Chapter 6. The Domestic Violence Challenge to Soviet Women's Empowerment Policies Tamar Sabedashvili Chapter 7. Domestic Violence in Georgia: State and Community Responses, 2006-2015 Nino Javakhishvili and Nino Butsashvili Chapter 8. Remembering the Past: Narratives of Displaced Women from Abkhazia Nargiza Arjevanidze Chapter 9. Displacement, State Violence and Gender Roles: The Case of Internally Displaced and Violence-Affected Georgian Women Joanna Regulska, Beth Mitchneck, and Peter Kabachnik PART III: IDENTITIES, REPRESENTATIONS, AND RESISTANCE Chapter 10. Images of "The New Woman" in Soviet Georgian Silent Films Salome Tsopurashvili Chapter 11. Gender Equality: Still a Disputed Value in Georgian Society Nana Sumbadze Chapter 12. Georgian Women Migrants: Experiences Abroad and at Home Tamar Zurabishvili, Maia Mestvirishvili and Tinatin Zurabishvili Chapter 13. Being Transgender in Georgia Natia Gvianishvili Chapter 14. Tracing the LGBT Movement in the Republic of Georgia: Stories of Activists Anna Rekhviashvili Afterword Elizabeth Cullen Dunn Index
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