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SUMMARY:Investigating the Family in the post-Soviet Context - Anna Shadrin
 a\,  a gender researcher and writer based in Minsk\, Belarus\; research as
 sociate at the Centre for Gender Studies\, the European Humanities Univers
 ity\, Vilnius\, Lithuania\; visiting scholar at the Weeks Centre for Socia
 l and Policy Research\, Londo
DTSTART:20150115T160000Z
DTEND:20150115T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:In the 90s a transformation of intimacy has become noticeable 
 in some\nformer Soviet countries. People began to delay marriage\, chose\n
 cohabitation or solo-living\, reproduced outside wedlock\, and gave birth\
 nto fewer children. These demographic trends were affected by the spread o
 f contraception and the economic turbulence of the transition period\, whe
 re unemployment coexisted with a new job market and a media stream that br
 ought Western cultural norms. After a brief post-Soviet period of democrat
 ization and liberalization\, authorities in Belarus and Russia began to sh
 ift their political course towards authoritarianism. The process of restor
 ing governments’ controlling role in both countries has been built upon 
 the destruction of free media and the rising ideological influence of the 
 Russian Orthodox Church. Citizens are being forced to embrace traditional 
 beliefs on hegemonic femininity and masculinity and the heteronormative ma
 rital unit as the only way to a fulfilling life.\nThis lecture explores th
 e contradictions of being a woman in a society\nthat sees female bodies an
 d identities as objects of control\, yet\nsimultaneously expects women to 
 take charge of their own destiny and\nparticipate in the free-market econo
 my\; the talk also considers how\nheteronormative propaganda frames the ex
 periences of women who live outside the traditional family structure.\n
LOCATION:Alison Richard Building\, Room SG2\, Sidgwick Site
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