Socioeconomic Conditions and Discursive Construction of Women’s Identities in Post-Soviet Countries

摘要: What happens when certain identities are no longer legitimized or validated by society? The goal of the present chapter is to understand impact radical historical and socioeconomic changes on discursive construction identity, in particular, subjectivities available a specific society at point time. current situation post-Soviet countries provides unique opportunity explore this issue examining lives caught rapidly shifting social reality. I will focus my analysis concept womanhood as it constituted, transformed redefined discourses. begin comparing political economic women Soviet times, linking conditions positions assigned preeminent ideologies before after 1991, since all times notions acceptable femininities closely tied distribution wealth (Burr, 1998; Gal, 1978).