Gender in Georgia : feminist perspectives on culture, nation, and history in the South Caucasus / edited by Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barkaia, Maia, editor.

Waterston, Alisse, 1951- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Georgia (Republic)--Social conditions.

Women.

Sex role--Georgia (Republic).

Sex role.

Women--Political activity.

History.

Abused women.

Women's rights.

Social conditions.

Georgia (Republic).

Women's rights--Georgia (Republic).

Abused women--Georgia (Republic).

Women--Political activity--Georgia (Republic)--History.

Women--Social conditions.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 238 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

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

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gender in Georgia.

ISBN:

9781785336751

1785336754

OCLC:

986237388