Women&#039;s Roles and Agency in Russian Society Before and During the War in Ukraine

Ann-Mari Sätre

doi:10.5771/9781666934595

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Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-3458-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-3459-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 250
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. List of Tables No access
3. Acknowledgements No access
4. List of Abbreviations No access
1. Changing Images versus Surviving Norms No access
2. Gender and Changes in the Institutional Framework No access
3. 1. COVID-19 and Poverty No access
4. Changes in Legal Rules and Their Relations to Gender Stereotypes No access
5. 1. Women’s Roles in Politics from Perestroika to Putin No access
6. 1. Chapter 1. Women and Women’s Work in the 1990s No access
  2. Chapter 2. Women’s Entrepreneurship No access
  3. Chapter 3. Women in Politics No access
  4. Chapter 4. Women Take Social Responsibility No access
  5. Chapter 5. Women’s Groups, Conservative Waves and Authoritarian Development No access
  6. Chapter 6. The Role of Women and Women’s Organizations under Increasing Repression No access
  7. Chapter 7. After the Invasion No access
  8. Epilogue No access
7. Notes No access
1. The Expected Effects of Transformation No access
2. 1. Wages and Employment No access
3. 1. Second Jobs and Transformation No access
4. 1. The Consumer Co-operative Engaged in Distribution of Food and Services in Rural Areas No access
  2. Women’s Networks and Distribution of Information No access
  3. Women Taking Initiative at the Local Level No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. Institutional Theory and the Gender Dimension No access
2. 1. Non-vertical Self-managed Organization No access
  2. Hairdressers without Contracts No access
  3. Balancing on the Edge No access
  4. Surviving Hierarchical Structures No access
  5. Low Faith in Enforcement No access
  6. Surviving Norms No access
3. 1. Business Strategies Based on Households No access
  2. Women’s Business Club in a Small City No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. 1. Two Different Views within the Zhenotdel No access
  2. The Gendered Labour Market Established and Reinforced No access
  3. Women of Russia – for Russia No access
2. 1. Local Administration Reform No access
  2. Some Space for New Opportunities No access
3. Who Is in Charge? No access
4. 1. Coping with New Rules No access
  2. How to Deal with Firms No access
  3. Combining Politics, Unpaid Work, and Contributions from the Rich No access
  4. Struggling with the Programmes? No access
  5. The Role of Deputies No access
  6. Project Administration No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. Heritage from the Soviet Time No access
2. 1. Social Mothers: Combining Politics and Informal Activity No access
3. 1. A Picture from a Small Town No access
  2. Enforcement of Rights No access
  3. Hierarchical Organization No access
  4. Space for Agency No access
4. 1. Fostering Patriotism No access
  2. Women’s Councils No access
5. 1. Director at the Service Centre/Internat on the Outskirts of the City No access
  2. Director of Internat for Men in 2016 No access
  3. Directors of Houses of Culture No access
  4. A Place for Patriotic Activities No access
  5. Director of Fostering School No access
  6. Director of School for Children with Mental or Intellectual/Psychological Disabilities No access
  7. Head of the Commission for Under-aged No access
  8. Director of Women’s Crisis Centre No access
  9. Directors of Children’s Homes No access
  10. Director of Charity Fund No access
6. 1. Teachers and the School No access
  2. Pedagogues and Social Pedagogues No access
  3. Doctor’s Assistant No access
  4. Entrepreneurs with Social Aims No access
  5. Social Work Specialist No access
  6. Librarian No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
1. Female Networks for NGO Leaders No access
2. 1. Women at the Top Promoting Traditional Family Values No access
  2. Promoting Women’s Rights Seen as Opposition and a Threat to Traditional Values No access
3. 1. Socially Oriented NGOs and Presidential Grants No access
  2. NGOs Promoting Family Values No access
  3. NGO Mira No access
4. 1. Women’s Crisis Centre: Giving Women a Second Chance after Prison No access
  2. NGO Zita No access
  3. NGO Lida No access
  4. NGO Vega No access
  5. The NGO ‘Courage to live’ No access
  6. Religious Rehabilitation Home for Women in Vulnerable Situations No access
  7. The Ombudsman and Women’s Rights No access
5. Ways to Empowerment? No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
1. 1. There Was Some Hope before 2012 No access
2. A Tightening Environment No access
3. 1. Reflecting Ongoing Struggles over Different Ways of Developing Society No access
  2. Survival or Revival of Soviet Values No access
  3. Attitudes towards Gender Equality No access
  4. Russia Classified as a Low Gender Discrimination Country No access
  5. An Increasing Polarization among Women? No access
4. 1. People Don’t Even Know about What Rights They Have No access
  2. Irresponsible Clients No access
5. 1. What Can the Ombudsman Actually Do? No access
  2. At the Eurasian Forum No access
  3. ‘There are No Rules’ No access
  4. No Grant This Time No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
1. 1. Under Investigation No access
  2. On the Women’s Conference No access
  3. Does It Not Matter to Them That There Is a War Going On? No access
2. 1. Patriotic Actions are about Supporting Militarism and Military Operations No access
  2. How are Women Affected by the War? No access
  3. ‘Nobody Needs any Opinions from People’ No access
  4. Not a ‘Foreign Agent’ No access
3. April–May 2022: Uncertain Times No access
4. 1. Trying to Find Private Donors No access
5. 1. Helping Refugees from Mariupol No access
  2. A ‘Military Attitude’ in Society No access
6. October–November 2022: Charitable Organizations Help Refugees from Ukraine No access
7. 1. New Targets: Families of the Mobilized No access
  2. Effects of Sanctions No access
8. February 2023: Almost a Year after the Full-scale Invasion No access
9. 1. Help Refugees No access
  2. Efforts of New Laws and the Lesson from Anna Karenina No access
10. June 2023: Being on Titanic No access
11. September 2023: Parallel Worlds No access
12. November 2023: The Government Is the Priority, Not the Individual No access
13. 1. Under Investigation Again No access
14. Conclusion No access
15. Notes No access
1. Supporting the War No access
2. Where are the ‘Soldiers’ Mothers’ who Took to the Streets to Protest the Chechen Wars? No access
3. Local Voices – Local Worries No access
4. ‘You Can’t Just Nod Because You Can’t Influence the Situation’ No access
5. Women Serving the State No access
6. New Ways for Women to Fulfil Societal Responsibilities No access
7. Towards a Widening Gap in Capabilities Between Women No access
8. NGOs Still have some Manoeuvring Room No access
9. The Year 2024 is the ‘Year of the Family’? No access
10. Notes No access
Selected Bibliography No access Pages 227 - 240
Index No access Pages 241 - 248
About the Author No access Pages 249 - 250