No More Heroines?: Russia, Women and the MarketPsychology Press, 1996 - Broj stranica: 220 With the collapse of Soviet rule and the emergence of independent Russia, the image of Russian women in the Western imagination has changed dramatically. The robust tractor drivers and athletes have been replaced by glamorous but vulnerable beauty queens or the dishevelled and downcast women trading goods on the streets. The authors of this work take a closer look at what lies behind the above images and how Russian women are coping with a very different sort of life. The main focus is on the effect of unemployment on Russian women and how they are coping with it. Based on case studies and personal interviews carried out in the Moscow region in 1993-94, No More Heroines? will provide both specialist and non-specialist alike with access to the thinking of women and their organisations in Russia today. |
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THE LEGACY OF PERESTROIKA | 15 |
WOMEN AND UNEMPLOYMENT | 39 |
LIVING STANDARDS THE NOT SO SMOOTH TRANSITION TO THE MARKET | 55 |
TACKLING UNEMPLOYMENT THE STATES RESPONSE TO A CHANGING LABOUR MARKET | 79 |
CREATING EMPLOYMENT THE RESPONSE OF WOMENS ORGANISATIONS | 95 |
WOMEN AND BUSINESS | 117 |
SURVIVAL STRATEGIES | 147 |
SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND THE NEW LABOUR MARKET | 165 |
TRANSITIONS VICTIMS OR HEROINES OF SURVIVAL? | 193 |
BACKGROUND TO THE CASESTUDIES | 201 |
NOTES | 205 |
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No More Heroines?: Russia, Women and the Market Sue Bridger,Rebecca Kay,Kathryn Pinnick Ograničeni pregled - 2005 |
No More Heroines?: Russia, Women and the Market Sue Bridger,Rebecca Kay,Kathryn Pinnick Ograničeni pregled - 2005 |
No More Heroines?: Russia, Women and the Market Susan Bridger,Kathryn Pinnick,Rebecca Kay Pregled nije dostupan - 1996 |
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Stranica 2 - ... Several authors who have observed the changes in gender ideology in these countries have emphasized that the transition has exacerbated "latent and manifest patriarchal attitudes," increasing women's vulnerability both culturally and economically (Moghadan 1993). Bridger, Kay, and Pinnick note that "the initial rounds of democratic elections in Russia have virtually wiped women off the political map and their re-emergence is now painfully slow and fraught with difficulty
Stranica 4 - USSR were already able to conclude that, in all probability, moving to a market-based economy will create mass unemployment and worsening poverty for a substantial minority of the population, as has been the case in the former German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. Such a prospect gives a very real urgency to debates over labour and social policy reform. (Standing 1991: 394) Unhappily for the Russian population, the policy of 'shock therapy' embarked upon in...
Stranica 6 - Our best-known economists and politicians are fond of repeating the assertion that "the market has no sex", since in the conditions of competition it is the strongest person who wins, regardless of whether it is a man or a woman