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Once Again on the Class Question in Postsoviet Feminism

@article{Gapova2009OnceAO,
  title={Once Again on the Class Question in Postsoviet Feminism},
  author={Elena Gapova},
  journal={The journal of social policy studies},
  year={2009},
  volume={7},
  pages={465-484}
}

• Elena Gapova
• Published 2009
• Sociology
• The journal of social policy studies

It has been claimed that class no longer functions as a significant factor in gender research in the Post-Soviet space. Yet, in the recent Women’s Conference of 2008, it was largely concluded that the Women’s Movement in Post-Soviet Russia has proved ineffective. It was contended that this failure could be explained in ‘lumpenization’ of the women’s movement in Russia that has occurred, causing, in other words, a breakdown in the solidarity of the movement along socio-economic cleavages. The… Expand