Empowering Women in Russia: Activism, Aid, and NGOs

by Julie Hemment

Julie Hemment's engrossing study traces the development encounter through interactions between international foundations and Russian women's groups during a decade of national collapse. Prohibited from organizing independently under state socialism, women's groups became a focus of attention in the mid-1990s for foundations eager to promote participatory democracy, but the version of civil society that has emerged (the "third sector") is far from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253218918
• ISBN13: 9780253218919
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"