Freedom Taking Place: War, Women and Culture at the Intersection of Ukraine, Poland, and BelarusJessica Zychowicz, Oksana Briukhovetska, Magdalena Furmanik-Kowalska, Małgorzata Jankowska, Olga Plakhotnik, Maria Mayerchyk, Svitlana Biedarieva, Kateryna Iakovlenko, Joanna Dobkowska-Kubacka, Veranika Laputska, Antonina Stebur, Nataliya Tchermalykh, Agnieszka Graff, Natallia Paulovich, Iryna Shuvalova Freedom as a concept shifts with different forms of expression. As the authors of this volume convey in their focus on 'freedom of expression', the idea of 'freedom' in the twenty-first century does not stand apart as a purely physical location marked by national borders. In the Internet Age information is increasingly co-determinate of physical freedom. The information-dense space of the protests of 2021, and beyond, provide soil for the intellectuals writing in this volume to reflect on women's agency in struggles for human rights. Where historical discourse on "The Woman Question" once conflicted with "feminism" as a perceived importation from the West, this conflict also produced productive tensions that have provided ongoing sites for research. When closely studied, these contexts can deepen global concepts of democracy and justice, providing not only pathways for acts of solidarity and mutual assistance, but intellectual depth and breadth for the future 'ways of knowing', and thus ways of creating, more equitable post-conflict power systems and citizenship amid times of revolution and war. Coming from multiple generations, gender identities, nationalities, and language; the authors in this volume represent the most forward-thinking voices and figures working on gender in the region today. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Past as Litmus of Freedom of Expression 137 | 6 |
Chapter | 13 |
Chapter 1 | 23 |
Problematizing Representations of Femininity | 37 |
Chapter 3 | 53 |
Chapter 4 | 72 |
Chapter 5 | 107 |
Twentieth Centuries | 139 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
activism activists aesthetic Agnieszka Graff Alexander Lukashenka Anastasiia Shevchenko Anna Archive Belarus Belarusian Belarusian women Blog body Bondarchuk catharsis chapter Chomu contemporary context created creative Crimea critical cultural discourse dispossession documentary Dom Kino dominant Donbas Eastern elections emotional Erna Rosenstein Euromaidan exhibition experience Facebook FEMEN femininity film Galagan gender global human Husar identity images Kakhidze Katarzyna Kozyra Kateryna Iakovlenko Khomenko kobiet Kraków Kulikovska Kulyk Keefer Kyiv language lived Lukashenka Maidan Revolution male March Maria Mayerchyk military mother movement narrative Natalia nation nationalist official Oksana painting participation Pavlychko performance Plakhotnik Poland Polish women political Post post-Soviet Postcolonial Poznań protests racism regime role Rough Cut Russian sexuality slogans social media socialist realism solidarity Sotnya Soviet Stasik Strawberry Andreevna Studies Svitlana symbolic Sztuka Ukraine Ukraine’s Ukrainian art Ukrainian society University Press violence visual Warszawa Website woman women artists Wrocław Yanukovych YouTube