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This article examines Russia's record in complying with the European Convention of Human Rights, the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the CoE's policies in relation to the human rights of women – the protection of women from domestic violence in particular. It seeks to explain why Russia has systematically refused to introduce specialized legislation on protection from domestic violence. It argues that human rights of women, especially cases of domestic violence, became the main point of contention between Russia and the CoE for two main reasons: a fundamentally different approach to the human rights of women and equality, inherited from Soviet-era legislation; and a special type of legal reasoning of international legal obligations – conservative jurisprudence – which undermined the understanding of the legal value of protection of human rights of women and led to invoking various arguments of cultural sovereignty. Non-compliance and quiet avoidance of any gender-sensitive legislation, not least on domestic violence, indicate that Russia has never really committed to the rule of law.

In contemporary Russia, online discourses on gender reflect the complex legacies of the Soviet and post-Soviet attitudes and approaches to masculinity and femininity. The current discourses on gender affect its digital construction. Mirroring the gendered discourses on masculine and feminine roles and patterns of behaviour, digital media spaces impose similar restrictions and expectations on female users as those experienced by women in their offline activities. This chapter offers an analysis of how the World Wide Web and digital technologies influence gender identity politics in contemporary Russian society. We look at the ways Russians construct gender online, how their practices become means of resistance and activism, and how they adapt and shape digital technologies to perform their gender identities and communicate with the State in the situation of increasing surveillance and control of material and cyberspaces. ; publishedVersion ; Peer reviewed

This book combines the approaches of history and criminology to study parricide and non-fatal violence against parents from across traditional period and geographical boundaries, encompassing research on Asia as well as Europe and North America. Parricide and non-fatal violence against parents are rare but significant forms of family violence. They have been perceived to be a recent phenomenon related to bad parenting and child abuse often in poorer socioeconomic circumstances - yet they have a history, which provides insights for modern-day explanation and intervention. Research on violence against parents has concentrated on child abuse and mental illness but, by using a rich array of primary and secondary documents, such as court cases, criminal statistics, newspaper reports, and legal and medical literature, this book shows that violence against parents is also shaped by conflicts related to parental authority, the rise of children's rights, conflicting economic and emotional expectations, and other sociohistorical factors.

List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : why and how gender matters? / Marianna G. Muravyeva and Raisa Maria Toivo -- pt. 1. Historiography and the politics of gender -- 1. From women's oppression to male anxiety : the concept of "patriarchy" in the historiography of early modern Europe / Androniki Dialeti -- 2. The metaphysics of gender in Christine de Pizan's thought / Ilse Paakkinen -- 3. "That women are but men's shadows" : examining gender, violence and criminality in early modern Britain / Anne-Marie Kilday -- pt. 2. Female spirituality, religion and gender identities -- 4. A good wife : demonic possession and discourses of gender in later medieval culture / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa -- 5. Between martyrdom and everyday pragmatism : gender, family, and anabaptism in early modern Germany / Paivi Raisanen-Schroder -- 6. Women's sexuality between legal prescription and ecclesiastical control in the Romanian principalities in the 18th century / Constanta Vintila-Ghitulesku -- pt. 3. Gendered witches and Nordic patriarchal compromises -- 7. Women, witches, and the town courts of Ribe : ideas of the gendered witch in early modern Denmark / Louise Nyholm Kallestrup -- 8. Male witches and masculinity in early modern Finnish witchcraft trials / Raisa Maria Toivo -- 9. Gendering moral crimes in early modern England and Europe : blasphemy the mirror image of witchcraft? / David Nash -- pt. 4. Laws, genders and deviancies -- 10. Gendered suicide in early modern Sweden and Finland / Riikka Miettinen -- 11. The responsibility of a seducer? : men, women and breach of promise in early modern Swedish legislation / Mari Valimaki -- 12. Personalizing homosexuality and masculinity in early modern Russia / Marianna Muravyeva -- Contributors -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

This Biographical Dictionary describes the lives, works and aspirations of more than 150 women and men who were active in, or part of, women's movements and feminisms in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe. Thus, it challenges the widely held belief that there was no historical feminism in this part of Europe. These innovative and often moving biographical portraits not only show that feminists existed here, but also that they were widespread and diverse, and included Romanian princesses, Serbian philosophers and peasants, Latvian and Slovakian novelists, Albanian teachers, Hungarian Christian social workers and activists of the Catholic women's movement, Austrian factory workers, Bulgarian feminist scientists and socialist feminists, Russian radicals, philanthropists, militant suffragists and Bolshevik activists, prominent writers and philosophers of the Ottoman era, as well as Turkish republican leftist political activists and nationalists, internationally recognized Greek feminist leaders, Estonian pharmacologists and science historians, Slovenian 'literary feminists,' Czech avant-garde painters, Ukrainian feminist scholars, Polish and Czech Senate Members, and many more. Their stories together constitute a rich tapestry of feminist activity and redress a serious imbalance in the historiography of women's movements and feminisms.