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Title Gender in Georgia : feminist perspectives on culture, nation, and history in the South Caucasus / edited by Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston.
Publisher New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.

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 In Library  Standard  Library Level 6 Annexe  Sov Stud CH280 2018-B  
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Description xii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN 9781785336751 hardback : alkaline paper
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Library Class Sov Stud CH280
Subject Women -- Georgia (Republic) -- Social conditions.
Women -- Soviet
Sex role -- Georgia (Republic)
Women's rights -- Georgia (Republic)
Abused women -- Georgia (Republic)
Women -- Georgia (Republic) -- Political activity -- History.
Other Author Barkaia, Maia, editor.
Waterston, Alisse, 1951- editor.

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