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maryxmasThe Department of Women's and Gender Studies cordially invites you to a luncheon talk, featuring Professor Oksana Kis
Director of the Lviv Research Center "Women and Society", Ukraine
Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
"BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD!"
or, NORMATIVE FEMININITY AS A POLITICAL STRATEGY IN CONTEMPORARY UKRAINE: THE CASE OF YULIA TYMOSHENKO
Thursday, November 29, 2007, noon
104 Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Two ideologies have been shaping public discourse in Ukraine since the collapse of the USSR: formerly forbidden Ukrainian nationalism and formerly unknown consumer culture. These two ideologies have generated and promoted two corresponding models of normative femininity for Ukrainian women— Berehynia and Barbie. This paper examines changes in the political image of Ukraine's most prominent woman politician, Yulia Tymoshenko over the course of her political career. Analyzing visual materials including photos, propaganda posters, flyers, and art paintings, as well as verbal messages in public speeches, interviews, and mass media publications, the paper explores how changes in Tymoshenko's appearance and rhetoric target various parts of electorate and contribute to her ascent to the summit of Ukrainian politics. Particular attention is given to the clash and confusion of feminist and feminine modes in Tymoshenko's political strategies as her political image shifts from Mother of the Nation and National Heroine to Victim/ Martyr, Faithful Christian, Fashionable Lady, Sexy Woman, and Businesswoman.
Oksana Kis, historian and ethnographer, is a research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and Director of the Lviv Research Center on Women and Society. Her research interests include Ukrainian peasant women, oral history, and the construction of social identities through memory and autobiography. She has co-edited special issues of the independent cultural magazine Ji on Gender Studies (2000, #17) and Femininity and Masculinity (2003, #27), as well as an anthology Approaching Gender: History, Culture, and Society (Lviv, 2003) and a special issue of the academic journal Ukraina Moderna on oral history (2007, vol. 11). In 2003-04, Professor Kis was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is currently the Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University.
To facilitate food planning, please rsvp to Suzy Kiefer ( mkiefer at rci.rutgers.edu) by November 26.
Director of the Lviv Research Center "Women and Society", Ukraine
Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
"BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD!"
or, NORMATIVE FEMININITY AS A POLITICAL STRATEGY IN CONTEMPORARY UKRAINE: THE CASE OF YULIA TYMOSHENKO
Thursday, November 29, 2007, noon
104 Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Two ideologies have been shaping public discourse in Ukraine since the collapse of the USSR: formerly forbidden Ukrainian nationalism and formerly unknown consumer culture. These two ideologies have generated and promoted two corresponding models of normative femininity for Ukrainian women— Berehynia and Barbie. This paper examines changes in the political image of Ukraine's most prominent woman politician, Yulia Tymoshenko over the course of her political career. Analyzing visual materials including photos, propaganda posters, flyers, and art paintings, as well as verbal messages in public speeches, interviews, and mass media publications, the paper explores how changes in Tymoshenko's appearance and rhetoric target various parts of electorate and contribute to her ascent to the summit of Ukrainian politics. Particular attention is given to the clash and confusion of feminist and feminine modes in Tymoshenko's political strategies as her political image shifts from Mother of the Nation and National Heroine to Victim/ Martyr, Faithful Christian, Fashionable Lady, Sexy Woman, and Businesswoman.
Oksana Kis, historian and ethnographer, is a research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and Director of the Lviv Research Center on Women and Society. Her research interests include Ukrainian peasant women, oral history, and the construction of social identities through memory and autobiography. She has co-edited special issues of the independent cultural magazine Ji on Gender Studies (2000, #17) and Femininity and Masculinity (2003, #27), as well as an anthology Approaching Gender: History, Culture, and Society (Lviv, 2003) and a special issue of the academic journal Ukraina Moderna on oral history (2007, vol. 11). In 2003-04, Professor Kis was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is currently the Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University.
To facilitate food planning, please rsvp to Suzy Kiefer ( mkiefer at rci.rutgers.edu) by November 26.
