Full Description
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.
Contents
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
