2004 calendar -- Women of Belarus

[Sibelan E S Forrester]

I apologize for the couple of missing characters in this post, which
didn't survive their trip into and out of my Macintosh.  I hope the
rest of the information will be sufficiently readable.  -- SF

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          «Women of Belarus» Series
                Calendar-2004: Statuses and Classes
                (Zhenshchiny Belarusi: statusy i classy)

                        Editor: Elena Gapova
                           Design: _lla Pigalskaya
                       Minsk: European Humanities University, 2003

Language: Russian with English abstracts; 26 pgs.

The new calendar of the «Women of Belarus» series, as well as the
previous three, measures our present by telling us a history of women
in the Belarusian lands of the Russian Empire. This time this is
their social history. How different «The Statuses and Classes» of
women in the turn-of-the-century photos are: a «real» photo album
could hardly bring together a Roma woman, a school teacher, a
balerina, and a Jewish factory worker, i.e. people differentiated not
only ethnically and socially, but by their occupations and ways of
earning a living. Women have always worked (although they may not
have worked the way they do now, out of the home of family business),
and photos from Belarusian archives and museums are an excellent
textimony to this.

The four issues of the series have already presented a part of our
history, viewed differently, than ever before.

Previous issues:
- Calendar-2001: Women of Belarus: Roads to Freedom (out of print).
- Calendar-2002: Women of Belarus: Creators of Culture (women-artists
from the 18 c. to present; most paintings never published before;
Second Prize at the Belarusian book competition of 2002).
- Calendar-2003: Women of Belarus: At the Personal Front (posters and
women's journals from the 1920-s. Excellent design).

The issues are available with East View Publications ( www.eastview.com )
either separately (database number of the 2004 issue is L2001868),
or as a series (YL000136).

You can have a look of the publications at
http://gender.ehu.by/ru/strip.php?id=525

Centre for Gender Studies website: http://gender.ehu.by

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