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On 8 March 2013, International Women’s Day, with the motto ‘Reforms are no women’s business! Revolutions are!’ a group of young feminists was making fun of (then) Prime Minister Asarov’s explanation for why there were almost no women in his cabinet. Asarov had justified this fact with the first half of the statement. Less than a year later, both Asarov and Yanukovych had been toppled — but was the ‘Maidan revolution’ (Bartkowski, 2014, p. 11) really ‘women’s business’?
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Roβmann, S. (2016). ‘To Serve like a Man’ — Ukraine’s Euromaidan and the Questions of Gender, Nationalism and Generational Change. In: Schwartz, M., Winkel, H. (eds) Eastern European Youth Cultures in a Global Context. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137385130_12
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