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BOOK REVIEWS Perestroika and Soviet Women. Edited by Mary Buckley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiii, 183 pp. $49.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. "Perestroika has not brought positive changes for women," asserts OI'ga Lipovskaia in her chapter on new women's organizations in Perestroika and Soviet Women. Her.assertion sums up the general tenor of all the selections-in.this slim volume covering the period from 1985 to mid-199I. One is not surprised that unemployment is hitting women hardest, as it did in the 1920s, or that women continue to do a disproportionate share of the heavy and unmechanized labor, or that the new "democratic" political organizations pay little attention to women's concerns, However, Judith Shapiro, in her essay on women in the industrial labor force, goes beyond these generalizations to examine in more detail the impact of perestroika, trace the ongins of many of the developments to pre-Gorbachev trends and explore the job choices Soviet women are making. Mary Buckley's examination of political reform details the drastic decline in women's representation in elected bodies since perescroika, but the major part of her essay concentrates on the emergence of independent women's groups. She identifies a number of these groups and divides them into
The Soviet and Post Soviet Review – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1993
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