CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Chervinska, Nadiia |
|---|---|
| Title | Gender, Nation, and Modernity: Reimagining Modernism in Ukrainian Literary Feminism of the 1990s |
| Summary | My thesis reconstructs the development of feminist thought in Ukraine from 1985 to 1999. It tells the story of a group of female literary scholars—Solomiia Pavlychko, Tamara Hundorova, Vira Aheeva, Nila Zborovska, and Oksana Zabuzhko—who introduced feminism to the public sphere through analysis of Ukrainian modernist literature of fin de siècle. I argue that by exposing the patriarchal aspects of the Ukrainian literary canon, they tried to modernize the project of national self-determination. I also contrast their approach to the alternative feminist project presented by Irina Zherebkina and the Center for Gender Studies in Kharkiv. I try to understand how these scholars positioned themselves against the national project, and, in turn, how nationalist discourses influenced their feminist priorities and rhetoric and how it affected negotiations between feminism and nationalism in post-independence Ukraine more broadly. |
| Supervisor | Trencsényi, Balázs; Sereda, Ostap |
| Department | Historical Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/chervinska_nadiia.pdf |
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