Book Launch this Tuesday

[Elena Gapova]

> Recently published collection "Post-Soviet Women
> Encountering Transition" (Woodraw Wilson Center
> Press/Johns Hopkins U Press, 2004) will be officially
> launched next Tuesday at a seminar at Kennan Institute
> (The Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Cente, One Woodrow
> Wilson Plaza,1300 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington)  between
> 3:30 and 5:30. Carol Nechemias and Kathleen Kuehnast, the
> book editors, will be there to discuss the book and answer
> questions from the audience.
>
> On Tuesday May 18 the book was presented by the Voice of
> America Russian Service in an hour-long program.
>


Table of contents
Foreword, Blair A. Ruble and Nancy E. Popson

Introduction: Women Navigating Change in Post-Soviet Currents, Kathleen
Kuehnast and Carol Nechemias

Part I. Gender and Nation Building

1. Tatyana Zhurzhenko. Strong Women, Weak State: Family Politics and Nation
Building in Post-Soviet Ukraine
2. Katherine E. Graney. The Gender of Sovereignty: Constructing Statehood,
Nation, and Gender Regimes in Post-Soviet Tatarstan.
3. David Abramson. Engendering Citizenship in Postcommunist Uzbekistan.
4. Elena Gapova. Conceptualizing Gender, Nation, and Class in Post-Soviet
Belarus.

Part II. Women and Rural Household Economics

5. Cynthia Werner. Feminizing the New Silk Road: Women Traders in Rural
Kazakhstan.
6. Susan A. Crate. The Gendered Nature of Viliui Sakha Post-Soviet
Adaptation.

Part III. Democratization in Post-Soviet Azarbaijan, Nayereh Tohidi

8. Ludmila Popkova. Women's Political Activism in Russia: The Case of
Samara.
9. Andrea Berg. Two Worlds Apart: The Lack of Integration between Women's
Informal Networks and Nongovernmetal Organizations in Uzbekistan.
10. Janet Elise Johnson. Sisterhood versus the "Moral" Russian State: The
Postcommunist Politics of Rape.

Part IV. Assistance Encounters

11. Rebecca Kay. Meeting the Challenge Together? Russian Grassroots Women's
Organizations and the Shortcomings of Western Aid.
12. Armine Ishkanian. Working at the Local-Global Intersection: The
Challenges Facing Women in Armenia's Nongovernmental Organization Sector.
13. Michele Rivkin-Fish. Gender and Democracy: Strategies of Engagement and
Dialogue on Women's Issues after Socialism.
14. Julie Hemment. Strategizing Gender and Development: Action Reserach and
Ethnographic Responsibility in the Russian Provinces.

Contributors

Index

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