Women's Everyday Lives in War and Peace in the South Caucasus

Book Overview

Part I: Women, Tradition and Social Change.- 1. Women as Bearers of Modernity and Tradition; Melanie Krebs.- 2. 'Supra is not for women': Hospitality Practices as a Lens on Gender and Social change; Costanza Curro.- 3. Women against Authoritarianism and Patriarchy: Agency and Political Protest in Armenia; Ulrike Ziemer.- Part II: Experiencing War and Displacement.- 4. Between Love, Pain and Identity: Armenian Women after World War I; Anna Aleksanyan.- 5. 'We are strangers among our own people': Displaced Armenian Women; Shushanik Ghazaryan.- 6. Vulnerability and Resilience: Women's Narratives of Forced Displacement from Abkhazia; Nargiza Arjevanidze.- 7. The Politics of Widowhood in Nagorny Karabakh; Nona Shahnazarian and Ulrike Ziemer.- 8. Invisible Battlefield: How the Politicization of LGBT Issues Affects the Visibility of LBT Women in Georgia; Natia Gvianishvili.- 9. Exploring Two Generations of Women Activists in Azerbaijan: Between Feminism and a Post-Soviet Locality; Yuliya Aliyeva Gureyeva.- 10. Feminism in Azerbaijan: Gender, Community and Nation-Building; Sinead Walsh.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030255190
• ISBN13: 9783030255190
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"