Ulrike Ziemer is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Winchester, UK.

“The book offers a fresh perspective on the topic and region, structuring its analysis into sections … . The book highlights and expertly traces important progress in gender equality and compares women’s different roles … . The book’s commendable selection of both native and non-native authors, and scholars at different stages of their career, provides balance and diversity. … richness and extremely well-selected topic choices … .” (Nina Lutterjohann, Europe-Asia Studies, December 20, 2021)

• Part I: Women, Tradition and Social Change.- 1. Women as Bearers of Modernity and Tradition; Melanie Krebs.- 2.  ‘Supra is not for women’: Hospitality Practices as a Lens on Gender and Social change; Costanza Curro.- 3. Women against Authoritarianism and Patriarchy: Agency and Political Protest in Armenia; Ulrike Ziemer.- Part II: Experiencing War and Displacement.- 4. Between Love, Pain and Identity: Armenian Women after World War I; Anna Aleksanyan.- 5. ‘We are strangers among our own people’: Displaced Armenian Women; Shushanik Ghazaryan.- 6. Vulnerability and Resilience: Women’s Narratives of Forced Displacement from Abkhazia; Nargiza Arjevanidze.- 7. The Politics of Widowhood in Nagorny Karabakh; Nona Shahnazarian and Ulrike Ziemer.- 8. Invisible Battlefield: How the Politicization of LGBT Issues Affects the Visibility of LBT Women in Georgia; Natia Gvianishvili.- 9. Exploring Two Generations of Women Activists in Azerbaijan: Between Feminism and a Post-Soviet Locality; Yuliya Aliyeva Gureyeva.- 10. Feminism in Azerbaijan: Gender, Community and Nation-Building; Sinead Walsh.

Ulrike Ziemer is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Winchester, UK.

“The book offers a fresh perspective on the topic and region, structuring its analysis into sections … . The book highlights and expertly traces important progress in gender equality and compares women’s different roles … . The book’s commendable selection of both native and non-native authors, and scholars at different stages of their career, provides balance and diversity. … richness and extremely well-selected topic choices … .” (Nina Lutterjohann, Europe-Asia Studies, December 20, 2021)

• Part I: Women, Tradition and Social Change.- 1. Women as Bearers of Modernity and Tradition; Melanie Krebs.- 2.  ‘Supra is not for women’: Hospitality Practices as a Lens on Gender and Social change; Costanza Curro.- 3. Women against Authoritarianism and Patriarchy: Agency and Political Protest in Armenia; Ulrike Ziemer.- Part II: Experiencing War and Displacement.- 4. Between Love, Pain and Identity: Armenian Women after World War I; Anna Aleksanyan.- 5. ‘We are strangers among our own people’: Displaced Armenian Women; Shushanik Ghazaryan.- 6. Vulnerability and Resilience: Women’s Narratives of Forced Displacement from Abkhazia; Nargiza Arjevanidze.- 7. The Politics of Widowhood in Nagorny Karabakh; Nona Shahnazarian and Ulrike Ziemer.- 8. Invisible Battlefield: How the Politicization of LGBT Issues Affects the Visibility of LBT Women in Georgia; Natia Gvianishvili.- 9. Exploring Two Generations of Women Activists in Azerbaijan: Between Feminism and a Post-Soviet Locality; Yuliya Aliyeva Gureyeva.- 10. Feminism in Azerbaijan: Gender, Community and Nation-Building; Sinead Walsh.

Ulrike Ziemer is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Winchester, UK.

“The book offers a fresh perspective on the topic and region, structuring its analysis into sections … . The book highlights and expertly traces important progress in gender equality and compares women’s different roles … . The book’s commendable selection of both native and non-native authors, and scholars at different stages of their career, provides balance and diversity. … richness and extremely well-selected topic choices … .” (Nina Lutterjohann, Europe-Asia Studies, December 20, 2021)

• Part I: Women, Tradition and Social Change.- 1. Women as Bearers of Modernity and Tradition; Melanie Krebs.- 2.  ‘Supra is not for women’: Hospitality Practices as a Lens on Gender and Social change; Costanza Curro.- 3. Women against Authoritarianism and Patriarchy: Agency and Political Protest in Armenia; Ulrike Ziemer.- Part II: Experiencing War and Displacement.- 4. Between Love, Pain and Identity: Armenian Women after World War I; Anna Aleksanyan.- 5. ‘We are strangers among our own people’: Displaced Armenian Women; Shushanik Ghazaryan.- 6. Vulnerability and Resilience: Women’s Narratives of Forced Displacement from Abkhazia; Nargiza Arjevanidze.- 7. The Politics of Widowhood in Nagorny Karabakh; Nona Shahnazarian and Ulrike Ziemer.- 8. Invisible Battlefield: How the Politicization of LGBT Issues Affects the Visibility of LBT Women in Georgia; Natia Gvianishvili.- 9. Exploring Two Generations of Women Activists in Azerbaijan: Between Feminism and a Post-Soviet Locality; Yuliya Aliyeva Gureyeva.- 10. Feminism in Azerbaijan: Gender, Community and Nation-Building; Sinead Walsh.