Mapping Difference

The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine
Herausgeber: Rubchak, Marian J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawn from various disciplines and a broad spectrum of research interests, these essays reflect on the challenging issues confronting women in Ukraine today. The contributors are an interdisciplinary, transnational group of scholars from gender studies, feminist theory, history, anthropology, sociology, women's studies, and literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780857451187
• ISBN-10: 0857451189
• Artikelnr.: 33831859

Autorenporträt

Marian J. Rubchak is a Senior Research Professor of History at Valparaiso University whose work focuses on reimagining Slavic identities in various contexts. She has written on the role of myth in shaping the identity of contemporary Ukrainian women, and the difficulties that they face in exerting agency in a transitional society with prejudices against women.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Foreword
Catherine Wanner
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Turning Oppression into Opportunity. An Introduction
Marian J Rubchak
Chapter 2. Between "Europe' and "Africa": Building the New Ukraine on the
Shoulders of Migrant Women
Cinzia Solari
Chapter 3. Women as Migrants on the Margins of the European Union
Alexandra Hrycak
Chapter 4. Prove it to me: The Life of a Jewish Social Activist in Ukraine
Sarah D. Phillips
Chapter 5. Biography as Political Geography: Patriotism in Ukranian Women's
Life Stories
Oksana Kis'
Chapter 6. Chronicle of Children's Holidays: Construction of Gender
Stereotypes in Ukrainian Preschools and Elementary Education
Victoria Haydenko
Chapter 7. Gender, Language Attitudes, and Language Status in Ukraine
Laada Bilaniuk
Chapter 8. Feminizing Journalism in Ukraine: Changing the Paradigm
Mariia Tytarenko
Chapter 9. Nationalism and Women's Literary Discourse in Post-Soviet
Ukraine
Maria Rewakowicz
Chapter 10. Feminist (de)Construction of Nationalism in the Post Soviet
Space
Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Chapter 11. Three Conversations:
Liudmyla Taran
I: Gender Education - a Step Toward Democracy
with Larysa Kobelianska
II: Gender Research in Sociology: The current situation
with Svitlana Oksamytna
III: From the Philosophy of a Name to the Philosophy of Life
with Yulia Tymoshenko
Notes on contributors
Bibliography
Index