No more heroines? : Russia, women and the market
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No more heroines? : Russia, women and the market
(Women and politics)
Routledge, 1996
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  Tochigi
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  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
With the collapse of Soviet rule and the emergence of independent Russia, the image of Russian women in the Western imagination has changed dramatically. The robust tractor drivers and athletes have been replaced by glamorous but vulnerable beauty queens or the dishevelled and downcast women trading goods on the streets.
The authors of this work take a closer look at what lies behind the above images and how Russian women are coping with a very different sort of life. The main focus is on the effect of unemployment on Russian women and how they are coping with it.
Based on case studies and personal interviews carried out in the Moscow region in 1993-94, No More Heroines? will provide both specialist and non-specialist alike with access to the thinking of women and their organisations in Russia today.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION: NO MORE HEROINES?
- Part I Part I THE IMPACT OF CHANGE
- Chapter 1 THE LEGACY OF PERESTROIKA
- Chapter 2 WOMEN AND UNEMPLOYMENT
- Chapter 3 LIVING STANDARDS: THE NOT SO SMOOTH TRANSITION TO THE MARKET
- Part II Part II RESPONDING TO CHANGE
- Chapter 4 TACKLING UNEMPLOYMENT: THE STATE's RESPONSE TO A CHANGING LABOUR MARKET
- Chapter 5 CREATING EMPLOYMENT: THE RESPONSE OF WOMEN'S ORGANISATIONS
- Chapter 6 WOMEN AND BUSINESS
- Chapter 7 SURVIVAL STRATEGIES
- Chapter 8 SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND THE NEW LABOUR MARKET
- IN CONCLUSION: TRANSITION'S VICTIMS OR HEROINES OF SURVIVAL?
- APPENDIX: BACKGROUND TO THE CASE-STUDIES
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY Index
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