The Evening School of Women and Gender Studies

Courses

   The Evening School of Women's and Gender Studies has great significance for the Center's activities. The project was created in 1997 as a faculty and post-graduate students initiative to raise gender and women's social rights awareness among the undergraduate students and the women's movement activists in the city of Tver. So, the School was opened for those who were interested to learn about:
   - What is women's and gender studies;
   - Who constructs gender and how is it constructed;
   - What is women's history;
   - How is gender understood and experienced in different societies;
   - What is feminism;
   - Do we have any prospects of gender partnership;
   We see the former students of the Evening courses among the City Duma deputies, the staff of local governments, journalists, activists of the Tver Women's Assembly, founders and consultants of the Crisis Center for Women and other leaders of social and cultural projects in our city.
   As our surveys of the Evening School alumnae show, women believe that their participation in the gender education programmes has contributed greatly to raising their level of public activity and conscious participation in the women’s movement. Some women remarked that, as a result of learning about gender problems and reading materials on women’s rights, they have managed to survive in critical and stressful situations in which they found themselves, and to protect their rights.
   For the Evening School-2001 the following courses are offered:
Dr. Valentina Uspenskaya:
Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies;
Feminisms;
Women and Gender Politics in Russia: Three generations of "new women" in patriarchal gender system in Russia;
Dr. Evgenia Stroganova:
Women in Russian Literature of the XIX century;
Dr. Vera Kulik:
Women in Russian History, IX-XX c.;
Dr.Natalia Kozlova:
Women and Politics;
Dr.Irina Frolova:
Women in the Cultures of the East;
Dr. Tatiana Grechushnikova:
Elements of Gender Analysis in Literature and Linguistics;
Dr. Sergei Rassadin:
Gender Aspects of Philosophical Anthropology;
Visiting Professor Dr. Isabel Marcus (USA):
Gender and Human Rights;

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