Overview
- Uniquely explores gender relations and politics in the post-Soviet region through the lens of choice
- Presents the first work focusing specifically on choice as an ideology of neoliberalism in the post-Soviet context
- Brings the two fields of gender and sexuality into conversation with each other
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Choice and Culture
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
The end of socialism in the Soviet Union and its satellite states ushered in a new era of choice. Yet the idea that people are really free to live as they choose turns out to be problematic. Personal choice is limited by a range of factors such as a person’s economic situation, class, age, government policies and social expectations, especially regarding gender roles. Furthermore, the notion of free choice is a crucial feature of capitalist ideology, and can be manipulated in the interests of the market. This edited collection explores the complexity of choice in Russia and Ukraine. The contributors explore how the new choices available to people after the collapse of the Soviet Union have interacted with and influenced gender identities and gender, and how choice has become one of the driving forces of class-formation in countries which were, in the Soviet era, supposedly classless.
The book will of interest to students and scholars across a range of subjects including gender and sexualities studies, history, sociology and political science.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Lynne Attwood is Honorary Fellow in Russian Studies (formerly Senior Lecturer) at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research is concerned with gender issues in Russia in a range of contexts such as film, housing, and women's magazines.
Elisabeth Schimpfössl is Lecturer in Sociology and Policy at Aston University, UK. Her research looks into questions around elites, power and social inequality.
Marina Yusupova has a PhD from the University of Manchester, UK. Her current research explores the changing normative orders of masculinity in Russia from the late Soviet period.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender and Choice after Socialism
Editors: Lynne Attwood, Elisabeth Schimpfössl, Marina Yusupova
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73661-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73660-0Published: 07 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08829-3Published: 24 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73661-7Published: 25 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 245
Topics: Gender Studies, Politics and Gender, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics