The Feminist Movement in Today´s Russia

Far from achieving gender equality, the Soviet official discourse masked blatant discrimination with false claims of its absence. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the women´s movement of the 1990s had to reevaluate all the conventional notions of gender relations, struggling simultaneously to resist a patriarchal renaissance and the decline of political protest as such.

Vera Akulova, Feminist Initiative Moscow, Russia

Lectures will be in English (silent translation to Russian and German possible)