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This volume explores the challenges that women face, their positions in changing societies, the negotiation of their roles and their responses to change and ways to achieve women’s empowerment. The regional focus is on countries in the territory of the former Soviet Union. With this volume, we fill a gap in the published knowledge on recent politics, ideology, identity and activism in relation to gender and to women that have been seriously impacted by conservative politics and resurgent nationalism.
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Sätre, AM., Vladimirova, V., Gradskova, Y. (2023). Post-Soviet Women: New Challenges and Ways to Empowerment-Introduction. In: Sätre, AM., Gradskova, Y., Vladimirova, V. (eds) Post-Soviet Women. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38066-2_1
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