Mapping Difference

<p> Drawn from various disciplines and a broad spectrum of research interests these essays reflect on the challenging issues confronting women in Ukraine today. The contributors are an interdisciplinary transnational group of scholars from gender studies feminist theory history anthropology sociology women's studies and literature. Among the issues they address are: the impact of migration education early socialization of gender roles the role of the media in perpetuating and shaping negative stereotypes the gendered nature of language women and the media literature by women and local appropriation of gender and feminist theory. Each author offers a fresh and unique perspective on the current process of survival strategies and postcommunist identity reconstruction among Ukrainian women in their current climate of patriarchalism.</p>