List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Contextualizing Gender in Georgia: Nation, Culture, Power and Politics
Alisse Waterston

PART I: POWER AND POLITICS

Chapter 1. Pioneer Women: “Herstories” of Feminist Movements in Georgia
Lela Gaprindashvili

Chapter 2. “The Country of the Happiest Women”?: Ideology and Gender in Soviet Georgia
Maia Barkaia

Chapter 3. “The West” and Georgian “Difference”: Discursive Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Georgia
Tamar Tskhadadze

Chapter 4. Overcoming the “Delay” Paradigm: New Approaches to Socialist Women’s Activism in Georgia and Poland
Magdalena Grabowska

Chapter 5. Women’s Political Representation in Post-Soviet Georgia
Ketevan Chkheidze

PART II: VIOLENCE

Chapter 6. The Domestic Violence Challenge to Soviet Women’s Empowerment Policies
Tamar Sabedashvili

Chapter 7. Domestic Violence in Georgia: State and Community Responses, 2006-2015
Nino Javakhishvili and Nino Butsashvili

Chapter 8. Remembering the Past: Narratives of Displaced Women from Abkhazia
Nargiza Arjevanidze

Chapter 9. Displacement, State Violence and Gender Roles: The Case of Internally Displaced and Violence-Affected Georgian Women
Joanna Regulska, Beth Mitchneck, and Peter Kabachnik

PART III: IDENTITIES, REPRESENTATIONS, AND RESISTANCE

Chapter 10. Images of “The New Woman” in Soviet Georgian Silent Films
Salome Tsopurashvili

Chapter 11. Gender Equality: Still a Disputed Value in Georgian Society
Nana Sumbadze

Chapter 12. Georgian Women Migrants: Experiences Abroad and at Home
Tamar Zurabishvili, Maia Mestvirishvili and Tinatin Zurabishvili

Chapter 13. Being Transgender in Georgia
Natia Gvianishvili

Chapter 14. Tracing the LGBT Movement in the Republic of Georgia: Stories of Activists
Anna Rekhviashvili

Afterword
Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Index

Gender in Georgia

Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus

Edited by Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston
Afterword by Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

250 pages, 19 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-78533-675-1 Hb Published (October 2017)

eISBN 978-1-78533-676-8 eBook

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“This book is recommended reading to anybody interested in Georgia with a broad variety of topics where every reader can find something interesting.” • East European Politics

“While academic in style, the book is suitable for a wider audience. The range of methodology and sources used are its main assets. The book will be of interest to researchers, students and practitioners in the fields of gender studies, identities, East European studies and post-socialism. Overall, the book is an ambitious attempt to cover broad themes and topics pertaining to gender in Georgia.” • Europe-Asia Studies

“Gender in Georgia is, frankly, a delightful example of scholarly explorations of identity and gender in a tumultuous political environment. It would be a welcome addition for courses on identity and gender. For feminist scholars and students generally, its interdisciplinary and methodological diversity offers a master class on addressing a single question from a variety of perspectives and angles. For those of us who are interested in Georgia, this a necessary work that not only highlights the challenges faced by women and LGBT communities there, but also is a testament to the resilience and strength of those who find paths forward.” • Gender & Society

“…a remarkably frank, thought-provoking and—to this reader—inspiring examination of gender in Georgia…The collection shows gender in Georgia as a social and political construct, as an experience, and as a powerful analytical tool through which to assess Georgia’s past and present. It is a much needed and welcome contribution to the field.” • Women East-West Newsletter (Association for Women in Slavic Studies)

“This edited volume provides the first collection of essays exploring gender in Georgia covering the period from the late nineteenth century to the present. As a collection, the volume is valuable reading for anyone with an interest in the complex and contested configurations of gender categories, identities, experiences, and agency in Georgia (and beyond), and for their relation to history, power, nation, and geo-politics.” • Slavic Review

“This volume is a wonderful and essential contribution to an understudied but critical area of interest.” • Fran Mascia-Lees, Rutgers University

As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself as a nation-state in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering, adjusting, resisting and transforming the new economic, social and political order. In Gender in Georgia, editors Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston bring together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the socio-political and cultural conditions that have shaped gender dynamics in Georgia from the late 19th century to the present. In doing so, they provide the first-ever woman-centered collection of research on Georgia, offering a feminist critique of power in its many manifestations, and an assessment of women’s political agency in Georgia.

Maia Barkaia comes from an interdisciplinary background. She has an international PhD in gender studies from Tbilisi State University and an M.A. in modern Indian history from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She was previously a visiting researcher at the International Gender Studies Center at the University of Oxford, and currently teaches at the Tbilisi State University. Her most recent project is a historiography of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict.

Alisse Waterston is Presidential Scholar and Professor of Anthropology at John Jay College, City University of New York. She is the author most recently of Light in Dark Times: The Human Search for Meaning, illustrated by Charlotte Corden (University of Toronto Press, 2020). She is past-President of the American Anthropological Association (2015-2017), and Editor of the Intimate Ethnography series (Berghahn Books).

Subject: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Area: Central/Eastern Europe

LC: HQ1726.64 .G46 2017

BL: DRT ELD.DS.208700

BISAC: SOC010000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Feminism & Feminist Theory; SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; POL052000 POLITICAL SCIENCE/Women in Politics

BIC: JFSJ1 Gender studies: women; JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography

berghahn New York · Oxford

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Gender in Georgia

Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus

Edited by Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston
Afterword by Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Subject: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Area: Central/Eastern Europe

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Gender in Georgia

Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus

Edited by Maia Barkaia and Alisse WaterstonAfterword by Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Subject: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Area: Central/Eastern Europe

Edited by Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston
Afterword by Elizabeth Cullen Dunn