Download or read book Russian Women and their Organizations written by R. Kay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-02-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grassroots Russian women's organizations faced multiple challenges in the early 1990s. Like their members, they were confronted with both potentially hostile attitudes and numerous practical difficulties. Post-Soviet ideologies of gender difference produced a gender climate which was particularly unsympathetic to female activism in support of other women. This book presents a detailed study of grassroots Russian women's organizations in 1991-96, against the background of a careful analysis of gender relations and attitudes to women's place in post-Soviet Russian society.