Empowering Women in Russia: Activism, Aid, and NGOs

Julie Hemment's engrossing study traces the development encounter through
interactions between international foundations and Russian women's groups during a
decade of national collapse. Prohibited from organizing independently under state
socialism, women's groups became a focus of attention in the mid-1990s for
foundations eager to promote participatory democracy, but the version of civil
society that has emerged (the "third sector") is far from what Russian
activists envisioned and what d...