Gender and Choice after Socialism
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
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Edit e d by LY N N E ATTWOOD .. , ELIS ABETH S CH IMPFOS S L a nd MARIN A Y US UPOVA
Gender and Choice after Socialism
Lynne Attwood • Elisabeth Schimpfössl Marina Yusupova Editors
Gender and Choice after Socialism
Editors Lynne Attwood School of Arts, Languages and Cultures University of Manchester Manchester, UK
Elisabeth Schimpfössl School of Languages and Social Sciences Aston University Birmingham, UK
Marina Yusupova University College for Interdisciplinary Learning, University of Manchester Manchester, UK
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Acknowledgements
Olga Isupova gratefully acknowledges the support she received from the Basic Research Program of the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Both Olesya Khromeychuk and Elisabeth Schimpfössl would like to acknowledge that the research for their chapters was made possible by the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. Nadzeya Husakouskaya acknowledges the financial and institutional support she received from the University of Bergen and the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research (SKOK). Her fieldwork in Ukraine was made possible by the Meltzer Project Grant. She is indebted to Randi Gressgård for her supervision and her valuable comments on her chapter, and is grateful to Olena Shevchenko, the director of Insight, and other team members of that organisatio
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