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<p class="EW-abstract"><strong>Abstract: </strong>In the 1940s and 1950s, thousands of Ukrainian women joined the underground nationalist movement on west Ukrainian lands as members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). However, their experiences and contributions to this movement remain understudied, marginalized and trivialized in historical research. A study of personal testimonies of former female insurgents allows one to question the established perception that women served only in auxiliary and secondary roles in the nationalist organizations. This paper examines whether the concept of normative femininity—as constructed by the nationalist ideology—actually corresponded to the women's real life experiences in the underground. It explores the variety of ways in which a traditional notion of femininity was maintained, broadened, negotiated, contested and transgressed through women's active involvement in guerrilla war.</p><p class="EW-Keyword">Keywords: Ukrainian Women, Militarism, Nationalist Underground, Femininity, OUN, UPA</p>

У статті представлено огляд розвитку жіночого руху та жіночих і .тендерних студій в незалежній Україні у контексті зміни ставлення до поняття «фемінізм», яке було дискредитоване у радянський час. Виділено чотири основні етапи та охарактеризовано основні проблеми становлення феміністських студій (академічного фемінізму) у вітчизняній науці та вищій школі. Простежено поступове формування феміністського активізму - від матер- налістських і традиціоналістських жіночих організацій на початку 1990-х до радикальних жіночих груп анархістського спрямування. Висвітлено взаємодію жіночих організацій з органами влади та зусилля активісток з подолання сексизму в українській політиці на тлі змін українського законодавства у напрямку забезпечення тендерної рівності. ; This article represents an overview of the developments in the contemporary Ukrainian womens movement and in womens and gender studies from the perspective of changing public attitudes towards the notion of feminism which has been discredited in Soviet times. It identifies four stages and examines major issues in the process of institutionalizing of feminism and feminist research in the Ukrainian academia. The author traces the progress of feminist activism in Ukraine from mater- nalist and traditionalist women's initiatives in the early 1990s up to radical anarchist womens groups in the 2010s. Peculiarities of interactions between womens NGOs and state institutions are explored against the backdrop of changes in the Ukrainian legislation on gender equality.

Drawn from various disciplines and a broad spectrum of research interests, these essays reflect on the challenging issues confronting women in Ukraine today. The contributors are an interdisciplinary, transnational group of scholars from gender studies, feminist theory, history, anthropology, sociology, women's studies, and literature. Among the issues they address are: the impact of migration, education, early socialization of gender roles, the role of the media in perpetuating and shaping negative stereotypes, the gendered nature of language, women and the media, literature by women, and local appropriation of gender and feminist theory. Each author offers a fresh and unique perspective on the current process of survival strategies and postcommunist identity reconstruction among Ukrainian women in their current climate of patriarchalism

Having been spared the constraints imposed on intellectual discourse by the totalitarian regime of the past, young Ukrainian scholars now engage with many Western ideological theories and practices in an atmosphere of intellectual freedom and uncensored scholarship. Displacing the Soviet legacy of prescribed thought and practices, this volume's female contributors have infused their work with Western elements, although vestiges of Soviet-style ideas, research methodology, and writing linger. The result is the articulation of a "New Imaginaries" — neither Soviet nor Western — that offers a unique approach to the study of gender by presenting a portrait of Ukrainian society as seen through the eyes of a new generation of feminist scholars