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Contemporary Women's Movement in Ukraine: Comparative Perspectives

Reading Assignments:

Session 1. Essence of women’s movement in socio-cultural and national context.

Zherebkina, I. 2002. Woman’s Political Unconscious. Gender Studies Series. St.Petersburg: Аleteya.

Zherebkina, I. 2003. Gender 90th or the Phallus Does Not Exist. Feminist Collection Series. St. Petersburg: Аleteya.

Hundorova, T. 2002. Femina Melancholica: Sex and Culture In Gender Utopia of O. Коbilyanska. Кyiv: Criticism.

Butler, J. 1993. Bodies That Matter: On The Discursive Limits of “Sex.” New York: Routledge. (In English)

Salecl, R. 1994. The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis and Feminism after the Fall of Socialism. New York: Routledge. (In English)

Moi, T. ed. 1986. The Kristeva Reader. New York: Columbia University Press. (In English)

Zizek, S. 1999. The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology. London: Verso. (In English)

Session 2. Women’s political subjectivity and democratization processes in the cross-cultural dimension.

Butler, J. 1997. The Psychic Life of Power. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997. (In English)

Zherebkina, I. 2001. “Feminist Theory of 90-th: Problematization of Woman’s Subjectivity,” in Introduction to Gender Studies. Vol.1, ed. by I. Zherebkina, 49-79. Kharkov, KCGS, St.Petersburg: Аleteya.

Popkova, L. 2001. “Theory and Practice of Contemporary Feminism: Women’s Movement in the USA,” in Introduction to Gender Studies. Vol.1, ed. by I.Zherebkina, 635-663. Kharkov, KCGS, St.Petersburg: Аleteya.

Scott, Joan. 2001. “Gender as a Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” in Introduction to Gender Studies. Vol. 2, ed. by S. Zherebkin, 405-36.Kharkov, KCGS, St. Petersburg: Аleteya.

Тyomkyna, A. 2001. “Woman’s Movement of the Second Wave: Sources, Conceptualization and Results,” in Introduction to Gender Studies, Vol.1, ed. by I. Zherebkina, 147-173. Kharkov, KCGS, St.Petersburg: Аleteya.

Ushakyn, S. 2001. “Political Theory of Feminism: Modern Debates,” in Introduction to Gender Studies, Vol.1, ed. by I.Zherebkina, 107-146. Kharkov, KCGS, St. Petersburg: Аleteya.

Tchikalova, I. 2001. “Gender Problematic in a Political Theory,” in Introduction to Gender Studies, ed. By I. Zherebkina, 80-106. Kharkov, KCGS, St. Petersburg: Аleteya.

Joan W. Scott. 1986. “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis.” The American Historical Review 91(5):1053-1075. (In English)

Session 3. Contemporary women’s movement as a liberation project: subjects of collective action.

Jenson, J.1995. “Extending the Boundaries of Citizenship: Women’s Movements of Western Europe,“ in The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women’s Movements in Global Perspective, ed. by Amrita Basu, 405-434. Westview Press.

Matynia, E. 1995. “Finding and Voice: Women in Postcommunist Central Europe,” in The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women’s Movements in Global Perspective, ed. by Amrita Basu, 351-373. Westview Press, 1995.

Millet, K. 1970. Sexual Politics. New York: Avon Books.

Wolfe, L., and J. Tucker.1995. “Feminism Lives: Building and Multicultural Women’s Movement in the United States,” in The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women’s Movements in Global Perspective, ed. by Amrita Basu, 435-462. Westview Press.

Аyvazova, S. 1998. Russian Women in the Labyrinth of Equality Rights. М.Rik Rusanova.

De Beauvoir, Simone. 1997. Second Sex. St. Petersburg, Progress-Аleteya.

Abubikirova, N.I., T.A. Klimenkova, E.V. Коchkina, and M.A.Regentova. 1998. Women’s Non-Governmental Organizations of Russia and UIS. Moscow: Eslan.

Argent, A. 2003. “Post-Communism and ‘Women’s Experience’?” in Feminist Approaches to Social Movements, Community and Power. Vol.2. Ed. by Mary Ann Tereault and Robin L. Teske. Columbia: University of South Carilona Press. (In English)

Gotlick, J. 1999. “From the Ground Up: Women’s Organizations and Democratization in Russia,” in Democratization and Women’s Grassroots Movements, ed. by Jill Bystydzienski and Joti Sekhon. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (In English)

SESSION 4. Women’s movement in post-Soviet Ukraine: Independent organizations and civic activities.

Zherebkina, I. 1999. “Who is Afraid of Feminism in the Former USSR?” Femina Postsovietica, Ukrainian Woman in a Transitional Period: From Social Movements to Politics, ed. by I. Zherebkina, 11-82. Kharkov: KCGS.

Lutsenko, H. 1999. “Modern Woman’s Movement in Ukraine,” in Femina Postsovietica, Ukrainian Woman in a Transitional Period: From Social Movements to Politics, ed. by I.Zherebkina, 152-200. Kharkov: KCGS.

Rubchuck, M. 2002. “Transformation of Femininity in Modern Ukraine,” in Gender Stories of East Europe, ed. by Е. Gapova, A. Usmanova, and A. Peto, 396-410. Minsk, Balarus, European Instutute for Humanities.

Smolyar, L. 1998. Мynule zarady maybutn'ogo. Zhinochyj rukh NadDnipryanska Ukrayna II pol. XIX- poch. XX st.. Stirynky istorii. Оdessa, Ukraine: Аstroprynt. (In Ukrainian)

Women’s Political View. 2004. Collection of materials of a project supported by Fund Beil.

Pavlychko, S. 2002. Feminism. Peredmova by V. Aheeva. Кyiv: Vydavnytsvo of Sоlоmija Pavlychko „Osnovy.” (In Ukrainian)

Porovska,V. 2003. Internet Sources for Women (Reference book). International Fund “Vidrodzhennija.” Kyiv: Ukrainian Women’s Fund. (In Ukrainian)

Kupryashkina, S. 1997. “Women’s Studies in Ukraine,” in Transitions, Environments, Translations: Feminisms in International Politics, ed. by J. Scott and C. Kaplan. New York: Routledge. (In English)

Database of Ukrainian women’s organizations in the Internet: <http://portal.uwf.kiev.ua/?p=org>