Kis, O. (Ed.). (2023). Zhinochi vymiry mynuloho: uiavlennia, dosvidy, reprezentatsii [Women’s Dimensions of the Past: Ideas, Experiences, Representations]. Center for Urban History.
Annotation: This edited volume illuminates little-known aspects of Ukrainian women’s historical experience within the context of the dominant social conceptions, legal norms, social institutions, and customary practices of the corresponding period (from the late seventeenth to the early twenty-first century). Through the lens of literature, correspondence, folklore, cinema, and visual creativity, the contributors trace women’s cultural (self-)representations. The volume examines the successes and difficulties of women’s entry into and self-realization within professional environments and urban space at the turn of the twentieth century. The complex processes of women’s coalescence and self-organization in interaction with the authorities, in the diaspora, and within the dissident movement reveal the ambivalence of female activism. The historical dimensions of gender-based violence are illuminated through the analysis of court cases, archival documents, and oral history materials. The volume presents diverse approaches to studying core questions in women’s history, demonstrates the informational potential and limitations of various types of historical sources, and opens previously unknown pages of women’s past. The book will be a valuable resource for instructors, students, and researchers working on Ukrainian history, as well as for activists of the women’s movement and human rights advocates whose work is directed toward overcoming gender discrimination in Ukraine.
The book was produced by the Center for Urban History in collaboration with the Ukrainian Association for Research in Women’s History, in partnership with the Institute of Ethnology, NAS of Ukraine, and with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Ukraine.
Reviewers:
Olena Stiazhkina, Doctor of Historical Sciences (habilitation equivalent), Leading Research Fellow at the Institute of History of Ukraine, NAS of Ukraine
Oksana Malanchuk-Rybak, Doctor of Historical Sciences (habilitation equivalent), Professor at the National Academy of Arts of Lviv
Oksana Hodovanska, Candidate of Historical Sciences (PhD equivalent), Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, NAS of Ukraine