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Gender and Choice after Socialism
Title
Gender and Choice after Socialism [electronic resource] / edited by Lynne Attwood, Elisabeth Schimpfössl, Marina Yusupova.
ISBN
9783319736617
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XXIII, 245 p.)
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Summary
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. The book will of interest to students and scholars across a range of subjects including gender and sexualities studies, history, sociology and political science.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 02, 2018
Contents
Section I Choice and the State
Half-Hidden or Half-Open? Scholarly Research on Soviet Homosexuals in Contemporary Russia
Transgender, Transition, and Dilemma of Choice in Contemporary Ukraine
From the Maidan to the Donbas: The Limitations on Choice for Women in Ukraine
Section II Choice and Culture
Narrating the Gender Order: Why Do Older Single Women in Russia Say That They Do Not Want to Be in Relationships with Men?
Gender and Choice Among Russia’s Upper Class
Choosing Whether to Have Children: A Netnographic Study of Women’s Attitudes Towards Childbirth and the Family in Post-Soviet Russia
Section III Choice and Modernity
Responsible Motherhood, Practices of Reproductive Choice and Class Construction in Contemporary Russia Between Militarism and Antimilitarism: ‘Masculine’ Choice in Post-Soviet Russia
Bibliography.-Index.
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