Women's Triumphs in Post-Soviet Russia - Helena Goscilo

Date/Time:	Thursday, 02 Mar 2006 at 7:00 pm
Location:	Great Hall, Memorial Union
Cost:	Free
Contact:
Phone:	515-294-9934
Channel:	Lecture Series
Categories:	Lectures
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Helena Goscilo is UCIS Research Professor and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. She is one of the most prominent American scholars of Russian feminism, gender and culture. She has authored and edited more than a dozen volumes, among them Balancing Acts; Dehexing Sex: Russian Womanhood during and after Glasnost; TNT: The Explosive World of Tatyana Tolstaya's Fiction; Russian Culture in the...

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Prof. Goscilo's lecture will address recent transformations in Russia that have affected women's daily lives, work, family relations, and motherhood. While focusing on the challenges that post-Soviet women have faced (and have overcome) since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the lecture
will provide a unique angle on the Russia of Yeltsin and Putin.