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Socioeconomic Conditions and Discursive Construction of Women’s Identities in Post-Soviet Countries

In: Critical Management Research in Eastern Europe

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  • Aneta Pavlenko

    (Temple University)

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What happens when certain identities are no longer legitimized or validated by society? The goal of the present chapter is to understand the impact of radical historical and socioeconomic changes on discursive construction of identity, in particular, on subjectivities available in a specific society at a specific point in time. The current situation in post-Soviet countries provides a unique opportunity to explore this issue by examining lives caught in a rapidly shifting social reality. I will focus my analysis on the concept of womanhood as it is constituted, transformed and redefined in post-Soviet discourses. I will begin by comparing the political and economic situation of women in Soviet and in post-Soviet times, linking the socioeconomic conditions to discursive positions assigned to women by the preeminent ideologies before and after 1991, since at all times notions of acceptable femininities are closely tied to economic conditions and the distribution of wealth (Burr, 1998; Gal, 1978).

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  • Aneta Pavlenko, 2002. "Socioeconomic Conditions and Discursive Construction of Women’s Identities in Post-Soviet Countries," Studies in Economic Transition, in: Mihaela Kelemen & Monika Kostera (ed.), Critical Management Research in Eastern Europe, chapter 5, pages 83-110, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:stuchp:978-1-4039-1436-1_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403914361_5
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