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Empowering Women in Russia: Activism, Aid, and NGOs

Empowering Women in Russia: Activism, Aid, and NGOs

Hemment, Julie

Paperback

Series: New Anthropologies of Europe

General Political ScienceWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0253218918
ISBN13: 9780253218919
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Mar 12 2007
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

Julie Hemment's engrossing study traces the development encounter through interactions between international foundations and Russian women's groups during a decade of national collapse. Prohibited from organizing independently under state socialism, women's groups became a focus of attention in the mid-1990s for foundations eager to promote participatory democracy, but the version of civil society that has emerged (the third sector) is far from what Russian activists envisioned and what donor agencies promised. Drawing on ethnographic methods and Participatory Action Research, Hemment tells the story of her introduction to and growing collaboration with members of the group Zhenskii Svet (Women's Light) in the provincial city of Tver'.

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