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Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine: Hear Our Voices aims to give voices to feminist scholars from Ukraine and the wider Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. This volume, recognizing the long-neglected nature of the war evolving since 2014, offers a compilation of essays contributed by scholars spanning diverse disciplines and practitioners alike. Employing a wide array of data sources and methodologies—encompassing archival research, media analysis, legal examination, surveys, in-depth interviews, participant observation, and feminist autoethnography—this book undertakes a broader exploration of how gender norms have been transgressed and cultural expectations of womanhood and manhood have evolved within the context of Ukraine from 2014–2023. Representing an early collaborative effort among Ukrainian and CEE feminist scholars, this compilation aims to showcase locally nurtured perspectives on Russia's invasion of Ukraine to a worldwide audience, with the overarching goal of sparking the development of fresh methodologies and approaches that can untangle the complex interconnection between gender and warfare.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Milica Antic Gaber
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Gendering Russia’s War in Ukraine
Maryna Shevtsova
1. From “Berehynya” and “Beauty” to Women’s Agency: Media Images of Women in the Context of Russia’s War on Ukraine
Olena Strelnyk
2. Gender, Men, and Masculinities on Euromaidan Protests and War in Ukraine
Tamara Martsenyuk and Maryna Shevtsova
3. Parallel Identities: LGBTQ+ Soldiers and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Ivan Shmatko and Dafna Rachok
4. Nudes Buy Army Boots: Agency, Subjectivity, and the Erotic During War (the TerOnlyFans
Movement)
Dafna Rachok
5. All Roads Lead to the Railway Station: How Young Ukrainian Refugee Volunteer Women
Challenge Sexism, Racism, And Homophobia in Refugee Support Networks
Daria Krivonos, Sonya Fam, Polina Kotlina, Mariia Kvych
6. Rsn Pzd: Ukrainian Women and Obscene Language in the Context of Russia's Full-Fledged
Invasion of Ukraine
Mariya Shcherbyna and Olga Zvyeryeva
7. Untold Stories: Experiences of Ukrainian LGBTQ+ Refugees in the Context of Russia’s Military Invasion
Maryna Shevtsova
8. Not All Quiet on the Northern Front: Belarusian Female Activists and Russia’s War Against
Ukraine
Katsiaryna Lozka
9. National Action Plan on UNHCR 1325 “Women, Peace and Security” in Ukraine: Meeting the
Context of a Full-scale War
Hanna Manoilenko
10. Loud and Uncomfortable Silences: Ukraine and the Challenges, Limits, and Possibilities of
Western Feminist Foreign Policies
Bénédicte Santoire
11. What Peace When We Win: Decolonizing Feminist Visions of Peace in Ukraine?
Oksana Potapova and Míla O’Sullivan
Conclusion. Charting New Frontiers in Understanding Russia's War in Ukraine
Maryna Shevtsova
Index
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Product details

Published Feb 20 2024
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 314
ISBN 9781666932904
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 2 Tables
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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