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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Women's Everyday Lives in the South Caucasus -- Diversity and Similarity: State Socialism's Legacy on Gender Relations -- Part I: Women, Tradition and Social Change -- Part II: Experiencing War and Displacement -- Part III: New Beginnings and Old Challenges: Feminism and Women's Identities -- References -- Part I Women, Tradition and Social Change -- 2 Women as Bearers of Modernity and Tradition -- Towards Modernity-Liberating Women and Liberated Women from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Soviet Union -- Debating Modernity-Urban Women and Rural Men in Independent Baku -- Challenging Modernity-Islam, Tradition and Urban Culture -- References -- 3 'Supra Is Not for Women': Hospitality Practices as a Lens on Gender and Social Change in Georgia -- Research Methods and Fieldwork Experience -- Gender Divides at the Georgian Table -- Past Against Future: The Rose Revolution's Modernization Narratives -- Internalizing Gender Roles or Exposing Exclusion? -- Women's Hospitality: Private vs. Private -- Women of the Past and the Future: Hospitality and Gendered Social Cleavages -- Conclusions -- References -- 4 Women Against Authoritarianism: Agency and Political Protest in Armenia -- Gender Relations Prior to the Protest Movement -- Viewing Political Protests Through a Gender Lens -- The 2018 Protests: Women's Agency and Activism -- Conclusions-What Next? -- References -- Part II Experiencing War and Displacement -- 5 Between Love, Pain and Identity: Armenian Women After World War I -- The Fate of Women and Girls During the Genocide -- The Rescue of Armenian Women in Urfa -- Regulations of Marriage Law and the Condemnation of 'Azgurats ' -- Conclusions -- References -- 6 'We Are Strangers Among Our Own People': Displaced Armenian Women -- Armenians in Soviet Baku.

Patriarchal Gender Ideology in Armenia -- Refugees, Belonging, Housing -- 'Strangers Among Us' -- Conclusions -- References -- 7 Vulnerability and Resilience: Women's Narratives of Forced Displacement from Abkhazia -- Methodological Approach: Intimate Ethnography and Storytelling -- The Uncertainty of Protracted Displacement -- Recollecting the Past: Living with 'Poisonous Knowledge' -- The Aftermath: Tactics of Survival and the Talent for Life -- Conclusions -- References -- 8 The Politics of Widowhood in Nagorny Karabakh -- Study Context and Methodology -- The Conflict over Nagorny Karabakh -- Model Mothers and Dutiful Wives: Armenian Gender Ideology -- Societal Marginalization and Isolation of War Widows -- Life Choices: Respect and Status or Second Love? -- Levirate: A Strategy for Reintegration? -- Widows' Sexual Desires and Social Control -- Conclusions -- References -- Part III New Beginnings and Old Challenges: Feminism and Women's Identities -- 9 Invisible Battlefield: How the Politicization of LGBT Issues Affects the Visibility of LBT Women in Georgia -- LGBT People in Georgia -- The Politicization of LGBT Issues -- Invisible Women-Invisible Battlefields -- Conclusions -- References -- 10 Exploring Two Generations of Women Activists in Azerbaijan: Between Feminism and a Post-Soviet Locality -- A Gender Framework Without Feminism -- Young Activists Seeding a Feminist Movement in Azerbaijan -- Conclusions -- References -- 11 Feminism in Azerbaijan: Gender, Community and Nation-Building -- Locating Feminism -- The Politics of Women's Bodies -- Gender, Civil Society and Nation-Building -- Conclusions -- References -- Index.

This edited volume explores the everyday struggles and challenges of women living in the South Caucasus. The primary aim of the collection is to shift the pre-occupation with geopolitical analysis in the region and to share new empirical research on women and social change. The contributors discuss a broad range of topics, each relating to women's.