%0 Journal Article
%T An Essay on Feminist Thinking in Russia: To Be Born a Feminist
%A Alexander Alexandrovich Kondakov
%J O£¿ati Socio-Legal Series
%D 2012
%I 
%X This paper is based on one particular life history of a Russian feminist. It analyses a narrative biography interview with one of the leading Russian feminist thinkers, Olga Lipovskaya, who was a founder of the Petersburg Centre for Gender Issues and promoted gender equality in Russia. The study examines the current situation of Russian feminist thinking by contextualisation of this biography into a larger scale of political and cultural transformations that have occurred after the fall of the USSR. Firstly, I provide contextual details, in which feminism in its contemporary form in Russia is developing as a political and scientific practice. Secondly, the paper raises problems of the method of narrative interview. Finally, I find common points of this particular life history and the history of the country once known as Soviet Union. Este art¨ªculo est¨¢ basado en la particular biograf¨ªa de una feminista rusa. En ¨¦l se analiza una entrevista biograf¨ªa narrativa con una de las principales pensadoras feministas rusas, Olga Lipovskaya, una de las fundadoras del Petersburg Centre for Gender Issues y promovi¨® la igualdad de g¨¦nero en Rusia. El estudio analiza la situaci¨®n actual del pensamiento feminista ruso, contextualizando esta biograf¨ªa en un marco m¨¢s amplio de las transformaciones pol¨ªticas y culturales que se han producido despu¨¦s de la ca¨ªda de la URSS. En primer lugar, se contextualiza c¨®mo el feminismo ruso contempor¨¢neo se est¨¢ desarrollando como una pr¨¢ctica pol¨ªtica y cient¨ªfica. En segundo lugar, el art¨ªculo plantea los problemas del m¨¦todo de la entrevista narrativa. Finalmente, se destacan puntos comunes entre esta biograf¨ªa particular y la historia del pa¨ªs que en su d¨ªa se denomin¨® Uni¨®n Sovi¨¦tica. DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2195213
%K Russian feminism
%K biography interview
%K gender equality in Russia
%K Olga Lipovskaya
%K Feminismo ruso
%K entrevista biogr¨¢fica
%K igualdad de g¨¦nero en Rusia
%U http://ssrn.com/abstract=2195213