CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Kovács, Erzsébet |
|---|---|
| Title | Mobilization of Estonian and Russian-speaking women in contemporary Estonia |
| Summary | With the fall of the Soviet Union a huge Russian-speaking population found itself being “economic immigrants” with seriously limited rights and legal status, even though they did not change their place of living and some of them do not have a passport at all. This thesis explores the mobilization of Estonian women and Russian-speaking women in contemporary Estonia. The Estonian society is full of serious anti-Russian attitude that can be clearly depicted in the agenda of Estonian women’s NGOs. These organizations do not incorporate the agenda of Russian-speaking women, although claim the universality of women’s needs. Russian-speaking women in turn form cultural organizations only which do not pursue an openly politicized gender agenda. This mirrors the inferior position of the Russian minority. Their needs are accommodated only in both-sex human rights based internationally funded consulting agencies, which also marginalize and neglect the gender issues, following patriarchal similar logic of domination, admitting the supremacy of ethnicity over gender – as the Estonian women’s NGOs do. |
| Supervisor | Zimmerman, Susan |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/kovacs_erzsebet.pdf |
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