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116001
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This essay provides insights into studies on citizens' engagement with human rights in Russia through its focus on a relatively under-researched area, namely, the ways in which women perceive the role of human rights in daily life contexts. This essay argues for the importance of analysing how women's perceptions of human rights are formed in situ in order to understand the ways in which location and gender create particular constraints for women in terms of their perceived and actual access to rights protection and ability to use rights to resolve their problems. Drawing on data generated during in-depth interviews conducted with women living in the provincial Russian city of Ul'yanovsk in 2005, this essay reveals women's complex engagements with the meaning and role of human rights in their daily lives. In particular, this analysis shows how women's perceptions of their positionalities in a post-Soviet provincial city informs how they think about where, when and why human rights apply to women.
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2012.
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This essay contributes new insights to current debates about the construction and meaning of queer space by considering how city space is appropriated by an informal 'lesbian' network in Ul'yanovsk, Russia. The group routinely occupied very public locations, meeting and socialising on the street or in mainstream cafés in central Ul'yanovsk, although claims to these spaces as queer were mostly contingent, precarious or invisible to outsiders.
The essay considers how provincial location affects tactics used to carve out communal space, foregrounding the importance of local context and collective agency in shaping specific forms of resistance, and questioning ethnocentric assumptions about the empowering potential of visibility.
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116002
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2012.
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This essay explores the experiences of recently married young women living in rural Russia in the village of Karsun in the Ul'yanovsk Oblast'. It analyses the connections between women in rural communities looking at social networks and the power relations inherent within them. The ways in which forms of power among and between women (as well as between women and men) impact on young women's agency are critically appraised through an analysis of what this essay terms forms of 'women's power'. The essay also shows how women's discussions of their experiences reflect the problems that the perceived physical and emotional absences of men present for younger married women and their attempts to develop forms of autonomy.
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