Gender in Georgia: Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus

✍ Scribed by Maia Barkaia (editor); Alisse Waterston (editor)

Publisher: Berghahn Books
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 250
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself as a nation-state in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering, adjusting, resisting and transforming the new economic, social and political order. In Gender in Georgia, editors Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston bring together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the socio-political and cultural conditions that have shaped gender dynamics in Georgia from the late 19th century to the present. In doing so, they provide the first-ever woman-centered collection of research on Georgia, offering a feminist critique of power in its many manifestations, and an assessment of women’s political agency in Georgia.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Contextualizing Gender in Georgia. Nation, Culture, Power, and Politics
Part I Power and Politics
Chapter 1 Pioneer Women “Herstories” of Feminist Movements in Georgia
Chapter 2 “The Country of the Happiest Women”? Ideology and Gender in Soviet Georgia
Chapter 3 “The West” and Georgian “Difference” Discursive Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Georgia
Chapter 4 Overcoming the “Delay” Paradigm New Approaches to Socialist Women’s Activism in Georgia and Poland
Chapter 5 Women’s Political Representation in Post-Soviet Georgia
Part II Violence
Chapter 6 The Domestic Violence Challenge to Soviet Women’s Empowerment Policies
Chapter 7 Domestic Violence in Georgia State and Community Responses, 2006–2015
Chapter 8 Remembering the Past Narratives of Displaced Women from Abkhazia
Chapter 9 Displacement, State Violence, and Gender Roles The Case of Internally Displaced and Violence-Affected Georgian Women
Part III Identities, Representations, and Resistance
Chapter 10 Images of “The New Woman” in Soviet Georgian Silent Films
Chapter 11 Gender Equality Still a Disputed Value in Georgian Society
Chapter 12 Georgian Women Migrants Experiences Abroad and at Home
Chapter 13 Being Transgender in Georgia
Chapter 14 Tracing the LGBT Movement in the Republic of Georgia Stories of Activists
Afterword

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