Mapping Difference : : The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine / / ed. by Marian J. Rubchak.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bilaniuk, Laada,; Haydenko, Victoria,; Hrycak, Alexandra,; Kis’, Oksana,; Phillips, Sarah D.,; Rewakowicz, Maria G.,; Solari, Cinzia,; Taran, Liudmyla,; Tytarenko, Mariia,; Zhurzhenko, Tatiana,
• HerausgeberIn: Rubchak, Marian J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

Drawn from various disciplines and a broad spectrum of research interests, these essays reflect on the challenging issues confronting women in Ukraine today. The contributors are an interdisciplinary, transnational group of scholars from gender studies, feminist theory, history, anthropology, sociology, women’s studies, and literature. Among the issues they address are: the impact of migration, education, early socialization of gender roles, the role of the media in perpetuating and shaping negative stereotypes, the gendered nature of language, women and the media, literature by women, and local appropriation of gender and feminist theory. Each author offers a fresh and unique perspective on the current process of survival strategies and postcommunist identity reconstruction among Ukrainian women in their current climate of patriarchalism.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 Turning Oppression into Opportunity: An Introduction -- CHAPTER 2 Between “Europe” and “Africa” Building the New Ukraine on the Shoulders of Migrant Women -- CHAPTER 3 Women as Migrants on the Margins of the European Union -- CHAPTER 4 Prove It to Me: The Life of a Jewish Social Activist in Ukraine -- CHAPTER 5 Biography as Political Geography: Patriotism in Ukrainian Women’s Life Stories -- CHAPTER 6 Chronicle of Children’s Holidays: Construction of Gender Stereotypes in Ukrainian Preschools and Elementary Education -- CHAPTER 7 Gender, Language Attitudes, and Language Status in Ukraine in the 1990s -- CHAPTER 8 Feminizing Journalism in Ukraine: Changing the Paradigm -- CHAPTER 9 Feminism, Nationalism, and Women’s Literary Discourse in Post-Soviet Ukraine -- CHAPTER 10 Feminist (De)Constructions of Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space -- CHAPTER 11 Three Conversations: The Search for Gender Justice -- Notes on Contributors -- Index