Gender in Georgia : feminist perspectives on culture, nation, and history in the South Caucasus /: feminist perspectives on culture, nation, and history in the South Caucasus. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston.
• Editors: Barkaia, Maia; Waterston, Alisse, 1951-
• Contents: Introduction: contextualizing gender in Georgia : nation, culture, power and politics / Alisse Waterston -- Power and politics -- Pioneer women : "herstories" of feminist movements in Georgia / by Lela Gaprindashvili -- "The country of the happiest women"? : gender and ideology in soviet Georgia / by Maia -- Barkaia -- "The West" and Georgian "difference" : discursive politics of gender and sexuality in Georgia / by Tamar Tskhadadze -- Overcoming the "delay" paradigm : new approaches to socialist women's activism in Georgia and Poland / by Magdalena Grabowska -- Women's political representation in post-soviet Georgia / by Ketevan Chkheidze -- Violence -- The domestic violence challenge to soviet women's empowerment policies / by Tamar Sabedashvili -- Domestic violence in Georgia : state and community responses, 2006-2015 / by Nino Javakhishvili and Nino Butsashvili -- Remembering the past : narratives of displaced women from Abkhazia / by Nargiza Arjevanidze -- Displacement, state violence and gender roles : the case of internally displaced and violence-affected Georgian women / by Joanna Regulska, Beth Mitchneck, and Peter -- Kabachnik -- Identities, representations, resistance -- Images of "the new woman" in soviet Georgian silent films / by Salome Tsopurashvili -- Gender equality : still a disputed value in Georgian society / by Nana Sumbadze -- Georgian women migrants : experiences abroad and at home / by Tamar Zurabishvili, Maia Mestvirishvili and Tinatin Zurabishvili -- Being transgender in Georgia / by Natia Gvianishvili -- Tracing the LGBT movement in the Republic of Georgia : stories of activists / by Anna Rekhviashvili -- Afterword / by Elizabeth Dunn -- Index.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 238 pages)
• Subjects: 305.4094758; Women -- Georgia (Republic) -- Social conditions; Sex role -- Georgia (Republic); Women's rights -- Georgia (Republic); Abused women -- Georgia (Republic); Women -- Political activity -- Georgia (Republic) -- History; Abused women; Sex role; Women -- Political activity; Women -- Social conditions; Women's rights; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies; Georgia (Republic); History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785336768; 1785336762
• Related ISBNs: 9781785336751
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2017).
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