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Запрещенные женщинам профессии – гендерная дискриминация

Author:
Anti-Discrimination Centre

Отчет посвящен «спискам профессий, запрещенных для женщин», – дискриминационным подзаконным актам, унаследованным от советского законодательства и до сих пор действующих во многих странах бывшего СССР.
Отчет выпущен в рамках кампании АДЦ «Мемориал» #allJobs4allWomen.

«Если женщина больше не слабая, зачем ее беречь». Социолог Елена Гапова о «сильных женщинах», «безвольных мужчинах» и советском гендерном проекте

Author:
Republic.ru
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Женщины в СССР одними из первых получили права, о которых гражданки других стран могли только мечтать, но сегодня Россия заметно отстает от Запада в том, что касается гендерного равенства. Каково положение постсоветской женщины сегодня? С советским наследием, стереотипами из «Служебного романа», растущей популярностью курсов по ведической женственности и молодой рыночной экономикой. Republic поговорил с Еленой Гаповой, кандидатом филологических наук и доцентом кафедры социологии Университета Западного Мичигана о том, почему идеал буржуазной семьи доступен не всем, что такое эротический патриотизм и зачем обществу «публика» на утренниках в детском саду.

Women, Business and the Law 2019: A Decade of Reform

Author:
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank
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To develop a better understanding of how women’s employment and entrepreneurship are affected by legal discrimination, Women, Business and the Law 2019: A Decade of Reform examines ten years of data through an index structured around the economic decisions women make as they go through their working lives. From a 25-year-old getting her first job or a mother balancing work with caring for her children, to a woman on the brink of retirement, the index explores how the economic decisions women make are affected by the law.

Делай сам/а: практики низовых гражданских инициатив

Книга рассказывает о том, как на постсоветском пространстве зарождаются, претворяются в жизнь и развиваются идеи, исходящие непосредственно от людей, готовых брать на себя ответственность за жизнь в своих сообществах и городах и имеющих представление о том, как и в каком обществе они хотят жить.

Собранные в книге истории отражают реальный опыт людей, которые смогли объединиться для совместного решения той или иной проблемы. В каждой главе вы найдете подробные описания низовых инициатив и интервью с их создателями. Книга полезна как для опытных активистов, так и для тех, кто только планирует реализацию или уже работает над созданием или развитием собственного проекта, а также для всех, кто просто интересуется тем, как устроено общество.

Ukrainian Feminism at the Crossroad of National, Postcolonial, and (Post)Soviet: Theorizing the Maidan Events 2013-2014

Author:
Maria Mayerchyk, Olga Plakhotnik
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The study is an endeavour of critical feminist analysis of well-known Ukrainian events in the winter of 2013-2014, called #EuroMaidan protests (further we shall use the shorter title – “Maidan” or "Maidan protests"). Some reflections on the war in the Eastern part of Ukraine are also included. We would like to discuss how discourses of feminism, nationalism, postcolonialism and (post)Sovietness are intersected in the production of meanings within the Maidan protests and the war that followed.

Non-territorial spaces of Belarusian political nomadism

Author:
Viktorija Rusinaitė

In Belarus the state systematically hinders the development of civil society. NGOs have difficulties registering, functioning and sustaining their organisations. Some individuals related to the civil sector are persecuted, fined, imprisoned. Therefore a number of NGOs are registered abroad and civil society activists move with them to continue their work on Belarusian issues. In this article we aim to define people who left Belarus in order to work for Belarus as Belarusian Political Nomads, using the notion of transnational subjectivity to explore their migration strategies.

Female Genital Mutilation of Girls in Dagestan (Russian Federation). Report based on the results of a qualitative study on female genital mutilation performed on girls

Author:
Yu. A. Antonova, S. V. Siradzhudinova

This report pursues a mainly practical goal: to draw attention to the practice of FGM in Dagestan in order to mobilise concern for the problem among various sectors and organisations, whose combined efforts have the potential to eradicate the practice in the region. The report’s findings are based on interviews conducted in February-March 2016 with women respondents who have undergone such operations in childhood, as well as interviews with local experts in Dagestan. An analysis of the interviews with the female respondents also illustrates how women living in Dages- tan’s mountainous villages perceive and justify the practice of FGM. Final- ly, the report presents what is probably the first legal analysis of the prac- tice under Russian national law, with reference to international law and standards.

The Gynaecologist’s Gaze: The Inconsistent Medicalisation of Contraception in Contemporary Russia

Author:
Anna Temkina

This essay discusses the medicalisation of contraception by gynaecologists in present-day Russia. I explore the disciplining discourse and tactics of gynaecologists as experts who aim to orient women towards properly planned and prepared pregnancy. Gynaecologists are important agents of reproductive control because they instruct women in detail about reproductive health and contraception. However, these disciplining medical discourses and professional practices are characterised by inconsistency. In accordance with the demographic priorities of the state, doctors are more oriented towards pregnancy treatment than consultation on contraception, and they are inconsistent in their regulation of contraceptive use. This biopolitical regime reflects the demographic priorities of the Russian state – to increase the population of Russia – and the role of women as the primary objects of this policy.

Feminism in Post-Soviet Belarus

Author:
Elena Gapova

How does a society with a lengthy period of socialist experience in its recent past think of the oppression of women? Would it recognize the issue at all? How would it see the origin of this oppression? Finally, what needs to be done for the world to become a better place? The way these issues have been theorized in the former socialist region was quite different from how they were seen in the West.