De bijdragen in deze bundel belichten de economische en sociale ontwikkeling in de landen van de voormalige Sovietunie, met speciale aandacht voor de rol van vrouwen. De volgende bijdragen zijn opgenomen: Victims and agents: gender in post-Soviet states / door Mary Buckley; Do Russian women want to work? / door Sarah Ashwin en Elain Bowers; Rural women and the impact of economic change / door Sue Bridger; Women and the culture of entrepreneurship / door Marta Bruno; Images of an ideal woman: perceptions of Russian womanhood through the media, education and women's own eyes / door Rebecca Kay; 'She was asking for it': rape and domestic violence against women / door Lynne Attwood; 'For the sake of the children': gender and migration in the former Soviet Union / door Hilary Pilkington; When the fighting is over: the soldiers' mothers and the Afghan madonnas / door Kathryn Pinnick; Adaptation of the Soviet Women's Committee: deputies' voices from 'Women of Russia' / door Mary Buckley; Women's groups in Russia / door Olga Lipovskaya: Women in changing societies: Latvia and Lithuania / door Nijole White; Progress on hold: the conservative faces of women in Ukraine / door Solomea Pavlychko; Out of the kitchen into the crossfire: women in independent Armenia / door Nora Dudwick; The women's peace train in Georgia / door Tamara Dragadze; Between tradition and modernity: the dilemma facing contemporary Central Asian women / door Shirin Akiner.