Book Launch: Post-Soviet Women: New Challenges and Ways to Empowerment

Post-Soviet Women explores how different post-Soviet countries have reinterpreted and diverged from the Soviet gender roles and values. It synthesizes results from multiple empirical studies that attend to increasingly conservative features of political governance in the region, particularly the authoritarian regime in Russia. The volume considers diverse enactments of ideologies, policies and practices of gender equality and women’s rights in crucial areas, such as legislative institutions, media, and social activism (see link below). 

With Li Bennich-Björkman (Uppsala U), Kateryna Boyko (IRES, Uppsala U), Alexandra Brankova (IRES, Uppsala U), Yulia Gradskova (Södertörn University College, Matthew Kott (IRES, Uppsala U), Ann-Mari Sätre (IRES, Uppsala U), Aliaksandra Shrubok (IRES, Uppsala U) and Vladislava Vladimirova (IRES, Uppsala U).

The book: Sätre, Ann-Mari, Yulia Gradskova and Vladislava Vladimirova  (eds 2023) Post-Soviet Women: New Challenges and Ways to Empowerment, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 367 p., is also available as an ebook at UU library. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-38066-2

After the seminar there will be some wine and cheese!