Compulsory Motherhood, Paternalistic State?: Ukrainian Gender Politics and the Subject of Woman

Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: Studying Ukrainian State: Gender Policy and Politics Under Changing Conditions
	Gender Policy and Gender Politics: Setting the Research Framework
	Traditionalization, Liberalization, or More? Soviet, Post-Soviet, and Post-Maidan Gender Transformations
	State: A Feminist Take
	Rethinking Policy Discourse Analysis
	Analyzing Change
	A Note on Policymaking in Ukraine
	Structure of the Book
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: Compulsory Motherhood
	New Welfare System: Preserving Foundations, Changing Tools
		Changes and Continuities in State Family Support
		The ‘Demographic Crisis’ as Depopulation and Poverty
		Biologized Motherhood of Victimized Woman
	Ukrainian Pronatalism and Familialism: ‘Upbringing’ in the Name of the Nation
		‘Upbringing’ in the Name of the Nation
		The ‘Demographic Crisis’ as Degradation and ‘Family Values’ as a Solution
		Ambiguity of Fatherhood
	The ‘Traditional Ukrainian Family’: From Ideal to Average
		Welfare Cuts and the New Normal
		The ‘Demographic Crisis’ Under Neoliberalism
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: Working and Mothering
	Is the Free Market ‘Bad’ for Women, and Are Women ‘Bad’ for the Free Market?
	Ukrainian Labor Code: Mothers First
		Women as a Special Category of Workers
		Attempted Labor Law Reform in 2003
		Deregulation of the Protective Labor Legislation
	The Working Mother: Reconciling Working and Caring
	Protecting Female Workers and Rewarding Reproduction in Pension Law
		Women’s Retirement Age
		Childcare and Retirement
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: Ukrainian Woman and Equality
	The Debt That Cannot Be Paid
		Ukrainian Woman: Between National Reproduction, Democratic Rights, and Poverty
		Women’s Position in the National Past
		‘The Cult of Motherhood’: Indebted to Ukrainian Women
	Equality in Difference
		“Real Equal-Rights”: The Discourse on ‘Improving Women’s Position’
		Women’s Special Contribution: The Discourse on Gender Difference
	Anti-genderism
		The Conundrum of the Anti-discrimination Legislation
		Ratification of the Istanbul Convention
	Bibliography
Chapter 5: Conclusion: Gender Politics and Conservative Neoliberal Transformations in Ukraine
	The Regime of ‘Compulsory’ Motherhood
	Conservative Neoliberalism and Gender
	Ukrainian Gender and Anti-gender Discourses in the European Context
	Theoretical Prospects
	Bibliography
Index