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“НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, БЕРЕЗЕНЬ 2012 WWW. UNWLA.ORG 7 WOM EN'S HISTORY AND GENDER STUDIES IN A CROSS - CULTURAL CONTEXT A Conversation with Dr. Oksana Kis ’ by Olesia Wallo Dr. Oksana Kis ’ is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Et h- nology , the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine , in L’ viv. She is also Directo r of the L ’ viv Research Center “ Woman and Society ” and President of the Ukrainian Association for Research in Wo m- en’ s History. Her book, Women in the Traditional Ukrainian Cu lture (second half of the 19th - early 20th cc.) , was pu b- lished by the Institute of Ethnology in L ’ viv in 2008. Over the last ten years, Dr. Kis ’ has received a number of prestigious academic awards, including a Fulbright Research Scholarship (2003), a Eugen e and Dymel Shklar Research Fellowship (2007), and a P e- tro Jacyk Visiting Professorship (2010). She is currently a Fu l- bright Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. Pani Oksano, March in the United States is the month of women's hi story. How deve l- oped is this branch of historical research in Ukraine today? Women’ s history in Ukraine is a comparatively young discipline. Despit e the fact that Ukrainian women’ s past evoked a strong interest among Ukrainian historians and ethnographers in the second half of the 19th century and that in the early 20th century this field already made up a considerable part of Ukrainian Studies, in the S o- viet era the study of women’ s history declined. The revitalization of this field in Ukraine occurred only in the early 1990s. We have to recognize that initially Ukrainian scholars encountered a lot of problems: post - Soviet social sciences and huma n- ities suffered from a dire lack of theoretical a p- proaches, with methodological chaos reigning s u- preme, and t he scholars hardly had any access to the works by the established researchers of wo m- en’ s history worldwide. At that time, the studies by historians from the Ukrainian diaspora in North America became our model and gave rise to two important branches of res earch: the history of the Ukrainian women’ s movement and biogr a- phies of renowned Ukrainian women. In the meantime, Ukrainian scholars familiarized the m- selves with what ha d been done in the field of women's history abroad and gradually began to use contempo rary theories and approaches in their own study of various aspects of Ukrainian wom en' s past. Today this field includes important ethnographic and anthropological studies, wo m- en's oral history, the history of women from var i- ous social strata (nobility, Cos sacks), and a rapi d- ly growing sub - field of women's history during socialism. Obviously, we cannot talk about the full - scale develo pment of this field since women’ s history has not yet been institutionalized in Ukraine: it is absent from the list of scholar ly di s- ciplines, so students and scholars cannot specia l- ize in it; there is not a single department of wo m- en ’ s history in Ukrainian universities and no ac a- demic journal in this field; and even courses in women ’ s history are a rare occurrence. Neverth e- less, women ’ s history has made advances in Ukraine in the last two decades. The fall of 2010 has seen the establishment of the Ukrainian Ass o- ciation for Research in Women ’ s History (UARWH), which brought together the scholars and teachers from different Ukrainia n cities whose professional interests lie in this field. Right now the UARWH is preparing a bibliographic re f- erence guide that will list all the works by the Ukrainian scholars in Ukrainian women ’ s history that were published between 1991 and 2011. One of the goals of the Association is to promote the publishing of high - quality research in women ’ s history that could counterbalance the enormous amount of primitive popular publications on the subject, which have taken over store bookshelves. In many ways, Ukr ainian women ’ s history is still an uncharted territory, so we encourage the young scholars to contribute to its study and d e- velopment. In your book, Women in the Traditional Ukrainian Culture , you examined the ev e- ryday life of Ukrainian peasant women in
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