Politics of gender

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Politics of gender

• 24.11.2004

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Readings

• Akiner, Shirin 1997. Between Tradition and
  Modernity The Dilemma Facing Contemporary
  Central Asian Women. In Buckley, Mary (ed.)
  Post-Soviet Women From the Baltic to Central
  Asia. New York Cambridge University Press.
• Kay, Rebecca 1997. Images of an Ideal Woman
  Percpetion of Russian Womanhood through the
  Media, Education and Women's Own Eyes. In
  Buckley, Mary (ed.) Post-Soviet Women From the
  Baltic to Central Asia. Cambridge Cambridge
  University Press.
• Occhipinti, Laurie 1996. Two Steps Back?
  Anti-Feminism in Eastern Europe. Anthropology
  Today, Vol. 12, No 6.

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Readings

• Shirin Akiner
• SOAS
• Rebecca Kay
• U of Glasgow
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• Laurie Occhipinti
• Northeastern U, Boston

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Soviet family under Stalin

• 1920s
• The need for stable family to rebuild the
  country
• 1930s
• award payments to women with large families
• abortions and divorces more difficult
• 1940s
• single persons and childless married persons -
  additional taxes
• only registered marriages recognized
• award medals to women with five or more children

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Noble Virgins

• Jerzy Sladkowski 2002 (Finland / Russia)
• Maryinskije Institute for Girls
• Kraskoyarsk
• Founded by General Alexander Lebed in 1998
• Russian Army Orthodox Church