Post-Soviet women: new challenges and ways to empowerment
In: Sustainable development goals series
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Post-Soviet Women -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Post-Soviet Women: New Challenges and Ways to Empowerment-Introduction -- Purpose and Theoretical Premises -- Thirty years After the Breakdown of the Soviet Union -- Institutions Matter -- New Challenges to Gender Equality in Post-Soviet Countries -- Traditional Family Values -- Ways to Empowerment? -- The Structure of This Book: Its Organization and Chapters -- Part 1: Women's Positions in the Post-Soviet Societies -- Part 2: Negotiating women's Roles -- Part 3: Women's Agency, New Movements and Activisms -- Notes -- References -- Women's Positions in the Post-Soviet Societies -- From Defending Women's Rights in the "Whole World" to Silence About Russia's Predatory War? The (Geo)politics of the Eurasian Women's Forums in the Context of "Traditional Values" -- The WIDF, the Committee of Soviet Women and Women's Rights During the Cold War3 -- Reconfiguring the Political Agenda: The Russian Authoritarian State and New (Geo)political Strategies Concerning Women -- The Women's Union of Russia and Its New Mission in the Late 2010s -- Promoting Businesswomen and "Traditional Family Values": The Russian State's International Agenda for Women -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Debates on the Domestic Violence Prevention Law in Russia-Pro and Contra -- Domestic Violence Statistics in Russia -- The Case of Domestic Violence Law in Russia -- History of Campaigns Against Domestic Violence in Russia -- Public Comments on the Draft Law for Domestic Violence -- The Role of the Orthodox Church in Russia -- The Orthodox Church as a Political Actor -- Arguments of the Opponents of the Law on Domestic Violence -- Arguments of the Defenders of the Law on Domestic Violence -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References.