Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine: Development and the Politics of Differentiation

In postsocialist Ukraine, with privatization and the scaling back of the social safety net, it is primarily women who have been left as leaders of service-oriented NGOs and mutual aid associations, caring for the marginalized and destitute with little or no support from the Ukrainian state. Sarah D. Phillips follows 11 activists over the course of several years to document the unexpected effects that social activism has produced for women: increasing social inequality and differentiation in the form of new cultural criteria for productive citizenship and new definitions of the rights and needs of various categories of citizens.

Author: Sarah D. Phillips
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 06/25/2008
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.13w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780253219923

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2009

About the Author

Sarah D. Phillips is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, Bloomington.