Looking back at the crossroads: Gender Studies between “class” and “discourse”

Abstract

by Elena Gapova

The paper puts post-Soviet gender studies in the context of
post-socialist nation building and emerging class inequality.
Treating gender studies as a case of “new social movements” and
citing Chandra Mohanty, Kristen Ghodsee, and Nancy Fraser, the
author argues that feminist activism, if it appears in the context
of neoliberalism and growing economic inequality, may turn
popular attention from the issues of redistribution to the politics
of recognition and, thus, become problematic as an ideology of
liberation.