No More Heroines?: Russia, Women and the Market (Women in Politics)

No More Heroines deals with the changes in the image of Russian women in the imaginations that occurred after the collapse of Soviet rule and the emergence of independent Russia. The robust tractor drivers and athletes have been replaced by glamorous but vulnerable beauty queens or the disheveled woman trading goods on the street.

No More Heroines takes a close look at what lies behind these images and how Russian women are coping with a very difficult sort of life. It looks at effect of unemployment on Russian women and how they are coping with it. The authors examine why women have been targeted for redundancy and the problems they face in the emerging Russian labor market. It explores the response of the state, a range of women's organizations and of individual women themselves to the new situation.

Based on case studies and personal interviews carried out in the Moscow region in 1993-1994, No More Heroines provides access to the thinking of women and their organizations in Russia today.