Mothers and Daughters of the Maidan: Gender, repertoires of violence, and the division of labour in Ukrainian protests
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Date
2014
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Martsenyuk, Tamara
Onuch, Olga
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Abstract
The Euromaidan shocked most observers of Ukrainian politics, not only for
its longevity (November 21, 2013 – February 22, 2014), but also for its turn to
violent repertoires1 of protest in the later stages. What was at first a peaceful
mass protest event which saw nearly equal participation of men and women
(Onuch, 2014d; Onuch & Martsenyuk, 2013), turned into what seemed to be
a violent and male dominated riot. While much attention has been paid to the
brave ‘women of the Euromaidan’ who also engaged in violent protests
(Khromeychuk, 2014; Phillips, 2014), female activists and other protest participants (‘ordinary’ citizens) have reported a gendered division of labour
in the protest zone. Thus, it is still not clear what the role of gender was
during the different stages of protest - and if the participation of women was
in fact, any different from that of male protest participants. This paper
employs original data from rapid interviews and onsite surveys of protest
participants, and the authors’ in-depth interviews with 48 activists to
investigate how violent repertoires and the general militarization of the
Euromaidan protests reproduced patriarchal gender stereotypes.
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Ukraine, Euromaidan, Orange Revolution, women
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Onuch O. Mothers and Daughters of the Maidan: Gender, repertoires of violence, and the division of labour in Ukrainian protests [electronic resource] / Dr. Olga Onuch, Dr. Tamara Martsenyuk // Social, Health, and Communication Studies Journal. - 2014. - Vol., No. 1.