Political Science
The "new" sexism: Images of Russian women during the transition
Document Type
Book Chapter
Abstract
For all of the chaos that has overtaken Russian politics and society in the last decade, perhaps the most profound change has been the introduction of glasnost and the decline in the censorship of public speech and action. As a result of these new freedoms, at the end of the 1980s women in Russia were able to start speaking out publicly about discrimination, about the gendered division of labor, about the paucity of women in high political positions, and so forth. Women’s organizations began to form independent of state control, national-level women’s movement conferences were held starting in the early 1990s, women’s newspapers and other publications emerged, and the women’s movement, non-existent in the mid-1980s, is now growing apace. Estimates of the number of women’s groups in Russia today range from 400 to 4,000.
Publication Title
Russia's Torn Safety Nets: Health and Social Welfare During the Transition
Publication Date
4-30-2016
First Page
174
Last Page
189
ISBN
9781349627127
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-62712-7
Keywords
sexism, women's movements, gender studies, women's rights, discrimination
Repository Citation
Sperling, Valerie, "The "new" sexism: Images of Russian women during the transition" (2016). Political Science. 91.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_political_science/91
