Gender in Georgia

Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-675-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barkaia, Maia

Waterston, Alisse

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Barkaia, Maia
Maia Barkaia has an international PhD in gender studies from Tbilisi State University and an M.A. in modern Indian history from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She holds positions at the Institute of Gender Studies, TSU, and the Human Rights Education and Monitoring Centre. Her research examines the dynamics of student resistance and social movements in Georgia and India; her current project explores the gendered political economy of time.

Waterston, Alisse
Alisse Waterston is Presidential Scholar and Professor of Anthropology at John Jay College, City University of New York. She is the author most recently of My Father's Wars: Migration, Memory and the Violence of a Century (Routledge, 2014). She has been an International Scholar of the Open Society Institute affiliated with Tbilisi State University (2012-2015) and is President of the American Anthropological Association (2015-2017).

Maia Barkaia has an international PhD in gender studies from Tbilisi State University and an M.A. in modern Indian history from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She holds positions at the Institute of Gender Studies, TSU, and the Human Rights Education and Monitoring Centre. Her research examines the dynamics of student resistance and social movements in Georgia and India; her current project explores the gendered political economy of time.