Women's Glasnost vs. Naglost - by Tatyana Mamonova (Hardcover)

About the Book

Yeltsin is certainly not the Sakharov of the Democratic Movement. Russian people sarcastically call his burning the Parliament an October Revolution of 1993. In Women's Glasnost vs. Naglost we finally hear the voices of the Russian women on what it means to be female and Russian in the tumultuous climate that is modern Russia. The founder of the Russian women's movement, Tatyana Mamonova was the first Russian woman exiled from the Soviet Union for publishing the underground samizdat, Woman and Russia. Now lauded as the Simone de Beauvoir of Russia, Mamonova has interviewed 17 Russian women on the subject of the C.A.S. as it relates to glasnost. Women from all walks of life are asked about changes with respect to their roles and expectations as women. Artists, professionals, dissidents, lesbians, doctors, writers, and civil servants tell their stories in candid terms showing that there is still a long road ahead. Revisions and elaborations of speeches delivered on Mamonova's American tours, poetry in her own hand, and line drawings in her own eloquent and prolific style compliment her essays and the women's interviews.

Book Synopsis

Yeltsin is certainly not the Sakharov of the Democratic Movement. Russian people sarcastically call his burning the Parliament an October Revolution of 1993. In Women's Glasnost vs. Naglost we finally hear the voices of the Russian women on what it means to be female and Russian in the tumultuous climate that is modern Russia. The founder of the Russian women's movement, Tatyana Mamonova was the first Russian woman exiled from the Soviet Union for publishing the underground samizdat, Woman and Russia. Now lauded as the Simone de Beauvoir of Russia, Mamonova has interviewed 17 Russian women on the subject of the C.A.S. as it relates to glasnost. Women from all walks of life are asked about changes with respect to their roles and expectations as women. Artists, professionals, dissidents, lesbians, doctors, writers, and civil servants tell their stories in candid terms showing that there is still a long road ahead. Revisions and elaborations of speeches delivered on Mamonova's American tours, poetry in her own hand, and line drawings in her own eloquent and prolific style compliment her essays and the women's interviews.

Review Quotes

"Tatyana Mamonova is a courageous feminist in exile. Everything she tells us about Russia is extremely precious."-Kate Millett Author Flying and Sexual Politics

"Tatyana V. Mamonova's Women and Glasnost is a very important book that is particularly timely at this critical point in Soviet-American relations. It is a very valuable contribution to a better understanding of both Soviet society and Soviet women, many of whom are interviewed in this book -- and how any real move toward democracy must include the female half of the population. . . . I highly recommend it for everyone interested in the birth of the Russian women's movement."-Riane Eisler Author The Chalice and the Blade

"This is indispensible for anyone interested in understanding the conditions of Russian women struggling to make their voices heard in the midst of the disintegration of the Soviet empire."-Joanna Hubbs Author Mother Russia

.,."The essays provide something of interest to everyone, from the specialist in Slavic or women's studies to general readers."-Choice

?...The essays provide something of interest to everyone, from the specialist in Slavic or women's studies to general readers.?-Choice

..."The essays provide something of interest to everyone, from the specialist in Slavic or women's studies to general readers."-Choice

About the Author

TATYANA MAMONOVA was born in Russia and exiled to Europe in 1980. She was invited to the U.S. from Paris by the Bunting Institute at Harvard University to be Scholar-in-Residence. She is a public speaker as well as an accomplished artist and writer and is now publishing a magazine, Woman and Earth, in both Russian and English. Her first two books, Woman and Russia, and (Russian Women's Studies) Essays on Sexism in Soviet Culture, were both highly acclaimed and have been reprinted many times.