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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction. Contextualizing Gender in Georgia. Nation, Culture, Power, and Politics 1
6. Part I Power and Politics
7. Chapter 1 Pioneer Women “Herstories” of Feminist Movements in Georgia 19
8. Chapter 2 “The Country of the Happiest Women”? Ideology and Gender in Soviet Georgia 33
9. Chapter 3 “The West” and Georgian “Difference” Discursive Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Georgia 47
10. Chapter 4 Overcoming the “Delay” Paradigm New Approaches to Socialist Women’s Activism in Georgia and Poland 61
11. Chapter 5 Women’s Political Representation in Post-Soviet Georgia 78
12. Part II Violence
13. Chapter 6 The Domestic Violence Challenge to Soviet Women’s Empowerment Policies 93
14. Chapter 7 Domestic Violence in Georgia State and Community Responses, 2006–2015 110
15. Chapter 8 Remembering the Past Narratives of Displaced Women from Abkhazia 125
16. Chapter 9 Displacement, State Violence, and Gender Roles The Case of Internally Displaced and Violence-Affected Georgian Women 138
17. Part III Identities, Representations, and Resistance
18. Chapter 10 Images of “The New Woman” in Soviet Georgian Silent Films 153
19. Chapter 11 Gender Equality Still a Disputed Value in Georgian Society 172
20. Chapter 12 Georgian Women Migrants Experiences Abroad and at Home 181
21. Chapter 13 Being Transgender in Georgia 194
22. Chapter 14 Tracing the LGBT Movement in the Republic of Georgia Stories of Activists 205
23. Afterword 223