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OUR LIFE Monthly, published by Ukrainian National Women’s League of America VOL. XLVIII SEPTEMBER 1991 Editor: Marta Baczynsky MARTHA BOHACHEVSKY-CHOMIAK WOMEN AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF EASTERN EUROPE The history of women in Eastern Europe has not been studied and there is little incentive to do so now, since women are strangely absent in the current libera tion of Eastern Europe and the countries of the disinte grating Soviet Union. One hears few voices of women, few calls for women’s liberation, and fewer yet to rally women in support of reform .1 What then can the study of silent women tell us about the area? I want to suggest that attention to the history of women can tell us more about the underlying processes in Eastern Europe than some of the conventional approaches to it can. Little is known about women in Eastern Europe not because they have been silent, but because they have not been heard. When we seek the images of women within the East European historical landscape, we realize that the area itself has not been thoroughly studied. Scholars dealing with Eastern Europe would greatly benefit from harness ing methods devised for the study of the history of women to gain a deeper understanding of Eastern Europe than the one that emerges from conventional approaches of geopolitics, intellectual history, and polit ical history. In this article I want to demonstrate that attention to women’s organizations and women’s con cerns can further augment our understanding of the underlying processes in Eastern Europe. I will do so by first summarizing the manner in which the area is stu died; then I will gauge the development of a civil society that brought Russia closer to the European model by highlighting an aspect of Russian women’s history in the nineteenth century. Subsequently, I will seek to expand our understanding of nationalism by viewing it through the concentrated lens of the Ukrainian women’s movement in inter-war Poland. Finally, I will glance at the current status of women in Eastern Europe and end with a discussion of the emergence of a potential mass women’s movement in Ukraine. Drawing by Daria Naumko When we write about women and Eastern Europe we are confronted with the problem of definition and, hence, of the delineation of the subject. At the same time, discussions on feminism, attempts to recapture for women those aspects of their history that were over looked or misappropriated, and even the theories which Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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