Russian Feminism: Twenty Years Forward

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

This 35-minute DVD portrays how Russians and Americans collaborated inreviving women's activism in the USSR and post-Soviet Russia and in creating Russianwomen's studies on both sides of the ocean. The film is based on interviews with 18experts who were engaged in this project, including activists and scholars.Participants assess the project's successes and failures since the days of glasnostand discuss the stiff challenges that Russian feminists face in the Putin-Medvedevera. An accompanying booklet with a short summary of Russian women's historycontextualizes the film.