Post-Soviet Women - New Challenges and Ways to Empowerment

This volume explores how different post-Soviet countries have reinterpreted and diverged from the Soviet gender roles and values. It synthesizes results from multiple empirical studies that attend to increasingly conservative features of political governance in the region, particularly the authoritarian regime in Russia. The authors consider diverse enactments of ideologies, policies and practices of gender equality and women's rights in crucial areas, such as legislative institutions, media, and social activism. The volume contributes to understanding post-Soviet societal dynamics relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, which emphasizes gender equality as part of fundamental human rights.

Ann-Mari Sätre is Professor in Eurasian Studies and Director of Research at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Yulia Gradskova is Associate Professor of History and Research Coordinator at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies at Södertörn University, Sweden.
Vladislava Vladimirova is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University, Sweden.