Gender in Georgia

Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus

Maia Barkaia, Alisse Waterston (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

250 Seiten

2017
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-675-1 (ISBN)

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Gender in Georgia brings together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the socio-political conditions that have shaped gender dynamics in Georgia from the late 19th century to the present.

As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself as a nation-state in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering, adjusting, resisting and transforming the new economic, social and political order. In Gender in Georgia, editors Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston bring together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the socio-political and cultural conditions that have shaped gender dynamics in Georgia from the late 19th century to the present. In doing so, they provide the first-ever woman-centered collection of research on Georgia, offering a feminist critique of power in its many manifestations, and an assessment of women’s political agency in Georgia.

Maia Barkaia comes from an interdisciplinary background. She has an international PhD in gender studies from Tbilisi State University and an M.A. in modern Indian history from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She was previously a visiting researcher at the International Gender Studies Center at the University of Oxford, and currently teaches at the Tbilisi State University. Her most recent project is a historiography of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict.

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Contextualizing Gender in Georgia: Nation, Culture, Power and Politics

Alisse Waterston

PART I: POWER AND POLITICS

Chapter 1. Pioneer Women: “Herstories” of Feminist Movements in Georgia

Lela Gaprindashvili

Chapter 2. “The Country of the Happiest Women”?: Ideology and Gender in Soviet Georgia

Maia Barkaia

Chapter 3. “The West” and Georgian “Difference”: Discursive Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Georgia

Tamar Tskhadadze

Chapter 4. Overcoming the “Delay” Paradigm: New Approaches to Socialist Women’s Activism in Georgia and Poland

Magdalena Grabowska

Chapter 5. Women’s Political Representation in Post-Soviet Georgia

Ketevan Chkheidze

PART II: VIOLENCE

Chapter 6. The Domestic Violence Challenge to Soviet Women’s Empowerment Policies

Tamar Sabedashvili

Chapter 7. Domestic Violence in Georgia: State and Community Responses, 2006-2015

Nino Javakhishvili and Nino Butsashvili

Chapter 8. Remembering the Past: Narratives of Displaced Women from Abkhazia

Nargiza Arjevanidze

Chapter 9. Displacement, State Violence and Gender Roles: The Case of Internally Displaced and Violence-Affected Georgian Women

Joanna Regulska, Beth Mitchneck, and Peter Kabachnik

PART III: IDENTITIES, REPRESENTATIONS, AND RESISTANCE

Chapter 10. Images of “The New Woman” in Soviet Georgian Silent Films

Salome Tsopurashvili

Chapter 11. Gender Equality: Still a Disputed Value in Georgian Society

Nana Sumbadze

Chapter 12. Georgian Women Migrants: Experiences Abroad and at Home

Tamar Zurabishvili, Maia Mestvirishvili and Tinatin Zurabishvili

Chapter 13. Being Transgender in Georgia

Natia Gvianishvili

Chapter 14. Tracing the LGBT Movement in the Republic of Georgia: Stories of Activists

Anna Rekhviashvili

Afterword

Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.10.2017
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-78533-675-4 / 1785336754
ISBN-13	978-1-78533-675-1 / 9781785336751
Zustand	Neuware