Abstract
The article analyzes public discourses on political leadership of women in the post-communist Russia. Based on her sociological research the author differentiates two main strategies of female politicians and women’s organizations. The first “professional” group of activists considers women’s interests or women’s rights issues as marginal for their democratic agenda. The second “maternalistic” strategy insists on the essentialist women’s political “predestination” to be responsible only for social and family policy. The analysis of these discourses gives the understanding of the perspectives for political empowerment of Russian women in the context of democratic transition.
Highlights
The article analyzes public discourses on political leadership of women in the post-communist Russia
It happened quite recently that the problems of Russian women’s political self-organization, women’s social movements and their strategy in the struggle for enlargement of women representation in power have become the subject of gender analysis
In studying the problem of women’s social and political activities in post-Soviet Russia we feel it is important to note that besides classifying the organizations according to their ideological affiliation these groups can be divided into formal social institutions and informal ones (Temkina 1997)
Summary
The article analyzes public discourses on political leadership of women in the post-communist Russia. It happened quite recently that the problems of Russian women’s political self-organization, women’s social movements and their strategy in the struggle for enlargement of women representation in power have become the subject of gender analysis.
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