Feminists Despite Themselves: Women in Ukrainian Community Life, 1884-1939

by Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak

The book Feminists Despite Themselves is the first history of the women's movement in Ukraine. The book explains how Ukrainian women, constrained by national and traditional issues, began to develop self-help organizations in their rural communities. It analyzes a vast range of material, encompassing Ukrainian women in the Russian and Austrian empires; the national liberation struggle; the interwar period; international feminism; and Ukrainian women...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0920862578
• ISBN13: 9780920862575
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 485 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Age Range: 18 years and up