Gender, Politics, and Society in Ukraine

List of Figures and Tables xi
Acknowledgments xv
Contributors xvii
Introduction: Gender in Transition: Legacies, Opportunities, and Milestones in Post-Soviet Ukraine 3
Olena Hankivsky and Anastasiya Salnykova

PART I: POLITICS AND GENDER
1 A Mosaic Model of Gender Democracy in Ukraine 29
Alissa V. Tolstokorova
2 Discourse of Continuity and Change: The Legislative Path to Equality 54
Marian J. Rubchak
3 Electoral Reforms and Women’s Representation in Ukraine 75
Anastasiya Salnykova
4 Global Campaigns to Combat Violence against Women: Theorizing Their Impact in Post-Communist Ukraine 98
Alexandra Hrycak

PART II: GENDER AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES
5 Gender, Nation, and Reproduction: Demographic Discourses and Politics in Ukraine after the Orange Revolution 131
Tatiana Zhurzhenko
6 (Re)Constructing Ukrainian Women’s History: Actors, Agents, and Narratives 152
Oksana Kis
7 Gender and Social Worth in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Civil Society 180
Sarah D. Phillips
8 Homeless Men and the Crisis of Masculinity in Contemporary Ukraine 204
Anastasiya Riabchuk

PART III: GENDER AND EDUCATION
9 Gender Policy and Education in Contemporary Ukraine: Discourses and Controversies 225
Olga Plakhotnik
10 Gender Analysis of School Textbooks in Ukraine 253
Elena Semikolenova
11 Educational Achievement, Social Background, and Occupational Allocations of Young Men and Women in Ukraine 282
Svitlana Oksamytna

PART IV: EMERGING ISSUES
12 Gender and Health in Ukraine 303
Olena Hankivsky
13 Masculinity in Soviet and Post-Soviet Ukraine: Models and Their Implications 325
Tetyana Bureychak
14 Cash and/or Care: Current Discourses and Practices of Fatherhood in Ukraine 362
Iryna Koshulap
15 Ukrainian Societal Attitudes towards the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Communities 385
Tamara Martsenyuk
16 Mainstreaming Gender Equality in Ukraine: Tensions, Challenges, and Possibilities 411
Olena Hankivsky and Anastasiya Salnykova

Afterword 440
Olena Hankivsky and Anastasiya Salnykova