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Journal Article
Grassroots women's activism in post-soviet Russia: Surviving social change together?
2004
Overview
The economic, social and political changes which have occurred in Russia over the last 10 years have had a profound effect on Russian women's lives. Economic reform has brought poverty, insecurity and high levels of anxiety and stress to large sections of the population both female and male (UNDP 1999). In addition, women have been faced with a new enthusiasm in the media, political rhetoric and public opinion, for essentialist attitudes to gender and restrictive notions of women's appropriate place and role in post-Soviet society (Attwood 1996; Sperling 1999, pp. 73-80). As a result women's position in the public sphere has been considerably undermined in terms of both political representation and access to paid employment. Many women have welcomed a move away from the excessive burdens of Soviet-style 'emancipation' which demanded both equal participation in the public sphere and primary responsibility for the family and domestic sphere from women. Yet a simple retreat into the private sphere of home and family has proved neither financially possible nor personally acceptable for large numbers of Russian women (Khotkina 1994; Mezentseva 1994; Bridger & Kay 1996). Since the early 1990s many Russian women have had to deal with new and difficult personal circumstances and have struggled to support their families and loved ones both materially and emotionally. In the face of these many challenges Russian women have shown great courage and ingenuity in developing flexible survival strategies for themselves and their families and adapting to new demands and circumstances (Kiblitskaya 2000; Bridger, Kay and Pinnick 1996). As well as struggling individually, some women have come together with others like themselves, forming grassroots women's organisations in an attempt to improve their circumstances and help each other to survive and, where possible, to prosper.
