Week 1: Introduction to gender and sexuality in the Post-Soviet states (07.10.2021)

Required reading:

· Ghodsee, Kristen. 2004. ‘Feminism-by-Design: Emerging Capitalisms, Cultural Feminism, and Women’s Nongovernmental Organizations in Postsocialist Eastern Europe’. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 29 (3): 727–53. https://doi.org/10.1086/380631.

PART I Central and Eastern European post-Soviet states

Week 2: Gender, LGBTQI+ and feminism in Russia and Ukraine (14.10.2021)

Topics: gender, feminisms, anti-gender, patriarchy

Discussion Leaders: students

Required reading:

· Hrycak, Alexandra. 2006. ‘Foundation Feminism and the Articulation of Hybrid Feminisms in Post-Socialist Ukraine’. East European Politics and Societies: And Cultures 20 (1): 69–100. https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325405284249.

· Kizenko, Nadieszda. 2013. ‘Feminized Patriarchy? Orthodoxy and Gender in Post-Soviet Russia’. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38 (3): 595–621. https://doi.org/10.1086 /668516.

· Kondakov, Alexander. 2010. ‘Heteronormativity of the Russian Legal Discourse: The Silencing, Lack, and Absence of Homosexual Subjects in Law and Policies’. Sortuz: Oñati Journal of Emergent Socio-Legal Studies 4 (2): 4–23.

· Shevtsova, Maryna. 2020. ‘Fighting “Gayropa”: Europeanization and Instrumentalization of LGBTI Rights in Ukrainian Public Debate’. Problems of Post-Communism 67 (6): 500–510. https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2020.1716807.

Further reading:

· Zychowicz, Jessica. 2011. ‘Two Bad Words: FEMEN & Feminism in Independent Ukraine’. Anthropology of East Europe Review 29 (2): 215–27.

· Hrycak, Alexandra, and Maria G. Rewakowicz. 2009. ‘Feminism, Intellectuals and the Formation of Micro-Publics in Postcommunist Ukraine’. Studies in East European Thought 61 (4): 309–33.

· Johnson, Janet Elise, and Aino Saarinen. 2013. ‘Twenty-First-Century Feminisms under Repression: Gender Regime Change and the Women’s Crisis Center Movement in Russia’. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38 (3): 543–67. https://doi.org/10.1086 /668515.

· Temkina, Anna, and Elena Zdravomyslova. 2014. ‘Gender’s Crooked Path: Feminism Confronts Russian Patriarchy’. Current Sociology 62 (2): 253–70. https://doi.org/10.1177 /0011392113515566.

Week 3: Women’s and LGBTQI+ roles in Belarus and Moldova (21.10.2021)

Topics: gender, migration, anti-gender, LGBTQI+, gender education, LGBTQI+/QUEER hate

Discussion Leaders: students

Required readings:

· Abiala, Kristina. 2014. ‘11. Young Moldovan Women at the Crossroads: Between Patriarchy and Transnational Labour Markets’. Huddinge: Södertörn University, 269–89.

· Bortnik, Viachaslau. 2007. ‘Hate Crimes against Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People in Belarus’. Mirovni Institute, 363–75.

· Shchurko, Tatsiana. 2018. ‘“Gender Education” in the Post-Soviet Belarus: Between Authoritarian Power, Neoliberal Ideology, and Democratic Institutions’. Policy Futures in Education 16 (4): 434–48. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478210317719779.

Further readings:

· ‘Study on Homophobia, Transphobia and Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Sociological Report: Moldova’. n.d. The Danish Institute for Human Rights. Accessed 8 July 2021. https://www.coe.int/t/Commissioner/Source /LGBT/MoldovaSociological_E.pdf.

· Denny, Edith. 2020. ‘The Silencing of Women in Belarus’. The IWI: International Women’s Initiative. https://www.theiwi.org/gpr-reports/women-in-belarus.

Week 4: No class (Czech Independence Day 28.10.2021)

Week 5: Gender and sexuality in post-Soviet Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (4.11. 2021)

Topics: anti-gender, anti-LGBTQI+, gender roles, feminism, patriarchy

Discussion Leaders: students

Required readings:

· Koobak, Redi. 2018. ‘Narrating Feminisms: What Do We Talk about When We Talk about Feminism in Estonia?’ Gender, Place & Culture 25 (7): 1010–24. https://doi.org/10.1080 /0966369X.2018.1471048.

· Vizgunova, Elizabete, and Elīna Graudiņa. 2020. ‘The Trouble with “Gender” in Latvia: Europeanisation Through the Prism of the Istanbul Convention’. Baltic Journal of Law & Politics 13 (1): 108–39. https://doi.org/10.2478/bjlp-2020-0005.

· Jurėnienė, Virginija. 2010. ‘Gender Roles in Lithuanian Society’. Global Journal of Human-Social Science Research 10 (6).
https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/90.

Further readings:

· Kaskla, Edgar. 2003. ‘The National Woman: Constructing Gender Roles in Estonia’. Journal of Baltic Studies 34 (3): 298–312.

· Pelz, Michael E. 2016. ‘Europeanization, National Party Systems and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights: The Cases of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania’. Thesis. https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/73120.

Week 6: Gender and sexuality in post-Soviet Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (part II) (11.11. 2021)

Topics: anti-gender, anti-LGBTQI+, gender roles, feminism, patriarchy

Discussion Leaders: students

Required readings:

· Tiidenberg, Katrin, and Airi-Alina Allaste. 2020. ‘LGBT Activism in Estonia: Identities, Enactment and Perceptions of LGBT People’. Sexualities 23 (3): 307–24. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460718797262.

· O’Dwyer, Conor, and Katrina Z S Schwartz. 2010. ‘Minority Rights after EU Enlargement: A Comparison of Antigay Politics in Poland and Latvia’. Comparative European Politics 8 (2): 220–43. https://doi.org/10.1057/cep.2008.31.

· Buschmann, Dovainė. 2018. ‘Worse than Communism? Discursive Anti-Gender Mobilizations in Lithuania’. Informacijos Mokslai 80 (July): 31–49. https://doi.org/10.15388 /Im.2017.80.11670.

Further readings:

· Pelz, Michael E. 2016. ‘Europeanization, National Party Systems and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights: The Cases of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania’. Thesis. https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/73120.

15.11.2021 Discussion paper on ‘how gender regime is different in your country than the countries we have already analysed’?

PART II Central Asian post-Soviet states

Week 7: Gendering after postsocialism in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan (18.11. 2021)

Topics: women’s role,, development, LGBTQI+, empowered womyn

Discussion Leaders:

Required readings:

· Harris, Colette. 2011. ‘State Business: Gender, Sex and Marriage in Tajikistan’. Central Asian Survey 30 (1): 97–111. http