Acknowledgements
Translator's Preface
Introduction ...................................................... 1
1 Women as the Objects and Motive Force of Change
in Our Time / Anastasia Posadskaya ............................ 8
2 What Does Our New Democracy
Offer Society? / Tatiana Klimenkova .......................... 14
3 The Mythology of Women's Emancipation in the USSR as the
Foundation for a Policy of Discrimination / Olga Voronina .... 37
4 No Longer Totalitarianism, But Not Yet Democracy:
The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement
in Russia / Valentina Konstantinova .......................... 57
5 What Does the Future Hold? (Some Thoughts on the
Prospects for Women's Employment) / Yelena Mezentseva ........ 74
6 Women in the Labour Market: Yesterday, Today and
Tomorrow / Zoya Khotkina ..................................... 85
7 Equal Opportunities or Protectionist Measures?
The Choice Facing Women / Yelena Mezentseva ................. 109
8 The Mythology of Womanhood in Contemporary "Soviet"
Culture / Olga Lipovskaya ................................... 123
9 Virgin Mary or Mary Magdalene? The Construction and
Reconstruction of Sex during the Perestroika
Period / Olga Voronina ...................................... 135
10 The Lesbian Subculture: The Historical Roots of
Lesbianism in the Former USSR / Olga Zhuk ................... 146
11 Feminism in Russia: Debates from
the Past / Svetlana Aivazova ................................ 154
12 A Feminist Critique of Policy, Legislation and Social
Consciousness in Post-socialist
Russia / Anastasia Posadskaya ............................... 164
Appendix - Self-Portrait of a Russian Feminist: An Interview
with Anastasia Posadskaya ...................................... 183
Notes on the Contributors ....................................... 202
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