Overview
- Presents interdisciplinary insights
- Explores the diverse experiences of women living a life between war and peace
- Fills a gap in the literature by focusing on women's present day experiences
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Women, Tradition and Social Change
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Experiencing War and Displacement
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New Beginnings and Old Challenges: Feminism and Women’s Identities
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About this book
This edited volume explores the everyday struggles and challenges of women living in the South Caucasus. The primary aim of the collection is to shift the pre-occupation with geopolitical analysis in the region and to share new empirical research on women and social change. The contributors discuss a broad range of topics, each relating to women’s everyday challenges during periods (past and present) of turbulent transformation and conflict, thus helping make sense of these transformations as well as adding new empirical insights to larger questions on life in the South Caucasus. Part I begins the discussion of women and social change in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan by examining the contradictions between traditional gender roles and emancipation and how they continue to dictate women’s lives. Part II focuses on women’s experiences of war and conflict in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and Nagorny Karabakh, as well as displacement from Abkhazia and Azerbaijan. Part III examines the challenges faced by sexual minorities in Georgia and feminist activism in Azerbaijan.
Women's Everyday Lives in War and Peace in the South Caucasus will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, politics, gender studies and history.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Ulrike Ziemer is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Winchester, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women's Everyday Lives in War and Peace in the South Caucasus
Editors: Ulrike Ziemer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25517-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25516-9Published: 02 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25519-0Published: 02 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25517-6Published: 13 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 281
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gender Studies, Politics and Gender, Social Structure, Social Inequality