Gender and Choice after Socialism

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Attwood, Lynne (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Schimpfössl, Elisabeth (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Yusupova, Marina (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Sociology.; Identity politics.; Russia-Politics and government.; Gender Studies.; Politics and Gender.; Russian and Post-Soviet Politics.

The end of socialism in the Soviet Union and its satellite states ushered in a new era of choice. Yet the idea that people are really free to live as they choose turns out to be problematic. Personal choice is limited by a range of factors such as a person's economic situation, class, age, gove...

Table of Contents:

• Section I Choice and the State
• Half-Hidden or Half-Open? Scholarly Research on Soviet Homosexuals in Contemporary Russia
• Transgender, Transition, and Dilemma of Choice in Contemporary Ukraine
• From the Maidan to the Donbas: The Limitations on Choice for Women in Ukraine
• Section II Choice and Culture
• Narrating the Gender Order: Why Do Older Single Women in Russia Say That They Do Not Want to Be in Relationships with Men?
• Gender and Choice Among Russia's Upper Class
• Choosing Whether to Have Children: A Netnographic Study of Women's Attitudes Towards Childbirth and the Family in Post-Soviet Russia
• Section III Choice and Modernity
• Responsible Motherhood, Practices of Reproductive Choice and Class Construction in Contemporary Russia Between Militarism and Antimilitarism: 'Masculine' Choice in Post-Soviet Russia
• Bibliography.-Index.