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До и после тюрьмы: женские истории. Коллективная монография.

Author:
Омельченко Е.Л., Сабирова Г.А., Пэллот Дж., Гончарова Н.В., Нартова Н.А. Научный редактор: Е.Л. Омельченко.

Коллективная монография написана по материалам социологического качественного исследования женщин, имеющих опыт заключения в исправительных учреждениях. Основные темы, которые раскрываются в книге, - это формальная и неформальная структуры власти, гендерные аспекты быта и повседневности в российских женских колониях, а также специфика построения биографических нарративов осужденных женщин. Кроме того, в монографии представлены голоса самих женщин в форме их биографических историй.  Книга предназначена для специалистов, интересующихся проблемами женской колонии и ресоциализации женщин, вышедших из мест лишения свободы, а также для широкого круга читателей.

На перепутье: методология, теория и практика ЛГБТ и квир-исследований. Сборник статей

Author:
Редактор-составитель: Александр Кондаков

Данная книга — результат одноименной конференции, состоявшейся в Санкт-Петербурге в октябре 2013 года. В статьях сборника представлены выводы эмпирических и теоретических исследований сексуальности, выполненных специалистами разных дисциплин и при помощи широкого спектра подходов. Социологические, политологические, психологические, филологические, лингвистические, культурологические, юридические работы делают равноценный вклад в общий архив знаний о сексуальности в России и иных контекстах.

"Childbirth Is Not A Car Rental": Mothers And Obstetricians Negotiating Choice And Relationships In Russian Commercial Maternity Care

Author:
Anna Temkina

This article explores how commercialization of maternity care in Russia offers new opportunities and imposes new limitations on both mothers-tobe and doctors. The research is based on 35 in-depth interviews with patients and 24 with professionals in paid maternity car in St. Petersburg (2015–2017). It is a significant and illustrative case within the broader trends in the Russian health care system of the 2000s–2010s. This article’s contribution is an understanding of maternity care’s post-socialism market development from the perspective of women: mothers-to-be and mostly female doctors. The ongoing reforms and organization of paid maternity care in Russia are analyzed. I explore the position of mothers-to-be as consumers with growing demands, and of professional women as they respond to such demands. I depict how doctors, though improving their economic and working conditions, resist the symbolic decline of their status and seek to restore their power, and how mothers-to-be accept doctors’
authoritative role in highly medicalized maternity care.

Materials of the V International Gender Workshop “Gender and (Military) Conflicts in Easter-European Countries through Feminist Lenses”

On March 8-10, 2017 in Lviv, the V International Gender Workshop took place organized by Heinrich Boell Office in Ukraine in cooperation with hbs offices in Eastern European countries and the Caucasus. Researchers and activists from Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Poland, Macedonia, Serbia, Czech Republic and Germany discussed military conflict situations in the region from the perspective of feminist critique. This publication collects texts created on the basis of some of the presentations from the event.

"Prostitutes" and "Defectors": How the Ukrainian State Constructs Women Emigrants to Italy and the USA

Author:
Cinzia Solari

Scholars of sending countries emphasise the role of economics in shaping state policies towards emigration. They argue sending states are converging around a set of discursive strategies that aim to facilitate the influx of remittances from emigrants. One such strategy uses discourses of cultural nationalism to celebrate emigrants as ‘heroes’ of the nation. Drawing on a state sponsored media campaign and ethnographic data, I found the Ukrainian state does the opposite. It stigmatises its emigrants to both Italy and the USA as ‘prostitutes’ and ‘defectors’ respectively. However emigrants are differentially stigmatised. Emigrants to the USA are simply dismissed, but the Ukrainian state constructs migration to Italy as a shameful social problem. It does this even though emigrants to Italy send back significantly more remittances. Economic interests cannot explain Ukrainian state practices towards emigration. Instead, in the context of post-Soviet transformation, I suggest the Ukrainian state has prioritised the construction of a national identity. The state then constructs policy with an eye to cultural rather than economic outcomes. I argue the Ukrainian state actively stigmatises the migration to Italy because it poses challenges to the nation-building process, whereas the migration to the USA is peripheral to this key state concern.

Gender and Choice After Socialism

Author:
Editors Attwood, L., Schimpfossl, E. and Yusupova, M.

The end of socialism in the Soviet Union and its satellite states ushered in a new era of choice. Yet the idea that people are really free to live as they choose turns out to be problematic.  Personal choice is limited by a range of factors such as a person’s economic situation, class, age, government policies and social expectations, especially regarding  gender roles. Furthermore, the notion of free choice is a crucial feature of capitalist ideology, and can be manipulated in the interests of the market. This edited collection explores the complexity of choice in Russia and Ukraine. The contributors explore how the new choices available to people after the collapse of the Soviet Union have interacted with and influenced gender identities and gender, and how choice has become one of the driving forces of class-formation in countries which were, in the Soviet era, supposedly classless.

Национальный обзор реализации положений Пекинской декларации и Платформы действий 1995 года по вопросам гендерного равенства и расширения прав и возможностей женщин РБ

В докладе затрагиваются вопросы по положению женщин в оплачиваемой и неоплачиваемой занятости; сокращению или равному с мужчинами распределению домашней работы и ухода за близкими; сокращению уровня нищеты среди женщин.

Sexuality and Revolution in Post‐Soviet Ukraine: LGBT Rights and the Euromaidan Protests of 2013–2014

Author:
Tamara Martsenyuk

While some attention has been paid to the role of women and gender aspects during the Euromaidan protests (2013–2014), there is a lack of research focusing on questions of homosexuality in this connection. This article examines the evolution of the situation regarding homosexuality and LGBT rights during the Euromaidan protests. The empirical base consists of 20 interviews conducted in July–August 2014 with LGBT rights activists, all of whom were involved in the Euromaidan protests. The respondents were asked a number of questions about the visibility of the LGBT community during the Euromaidan; about which events they considered to be significant for the LGBT community; and about the positive and negative aspects of the Euromaidan with regard to the human rights situation for LGBT people. The “strategy of invisibility” chosen by LGBT activists during this protest is analyzed and criticized here with the help of the concept of “homonationalism.” In addition, the article investigates the ways in which LGBT activists in Ukraine reproduce the West vs. East and EU vs. Russia binaries.

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

Author:
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank
Source:

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.

Книга «Невидимые» – Реальные истории ЛГБТ-семей

Первая часть книги – реальные истории ЛГБТ+ семей, которые воспитывают детей. 10 реальных семей – 10 реальных историй. Семьи, участвующие в интервью, откровенно поделились своими историями, рассказали, как складываются их отношения с родственниками, с социумом, с какими проблемами им приходится сталкиваться ежедневно, как повлиял на их жизнь «Закон о пропаганде гомосексуализма среди несовершеннолетних». 

Вторая часть – комментарии психологинь, работающих с ЛГБТ+ семьями. Эти часть книги очень значима, так как содержит ответы на многие вопросы, волнующие ЛГБТ+ родителей. Как открыться ребенку? Что делать, если ребенок не принимают свою семью? Как реагировать на возможную агрессию со стороны социума?

Заключительная часть книги – мнения и комментарии ЛГБТ+ активистов и активисток, которые не просто озвучивают проблемы ЛГБТ+ семей в России, но и предлагают различные варианты решения и пути выхода из сложившейся ситуации.