| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2017) |
| Subject |
Women -- Georgia (Republic) -- Social conditions
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Sex role -- Georgia (Republic)
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Women's rights -- Georgia (Republic)
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Abused women -- Georgia (Republic)
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Women -- Political activity -- Georgia (Republic) -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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Abused women
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Sex role
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Women -- Political activity
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Women -- Social conditions
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Women's rights
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Georgia (Republic)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Barkaia, Maia, editor
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Waterston, Alisse, 1951- editor.
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| LC no. |
2017041815 |
| ISBN |
9781785336768 |
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1785336762 |
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1785336754 |
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9781785336751 |
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