Russian Women and their Organizations - Gender, Discrimination and Grassroots Women's Organizations, 1991-96 (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)

Grassroots Russian women's organizations faced multiple challenges in the early 1990s. Like their members, they were confronted with both potentially hostile attitudes and numerous practical difficulties. Post-Soviet ideologies of gender difference produced a gender climate which was particularly unsympathetic to female activism in support of other women. This book presents a detailed study of grassroots Russian women's organizations inn 1991-6, against the background of a careful analysis of gender relations and attitudes to women's place in post-Soviet Russian society.