Gender Violence in Russia: The Politics of Feminist Intervention

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index 77–78; “Rainbow of Rights” series and, 77; on Soviet legal reform, 87 American International Health Alliance, 99 Amnesty International: on domestic violence laws/policing, 107, 110, 112, 116; embrace of women’s rights, 22; gender violence monitoring in Russia, 2; as global-local structural framework component, 7; Stop Violence Against Women campaign, 22, 91; on trafficking, 121–22, 139 Angel Coalition, 61–63, 65, 128, 129–30, 133, 138–39, 144 ANNA (No to Violence Association): domestic violence activism and, 98, 110; Ford Foundation grants to, 59, 61; founding of, 49; global feminism and, 57–58; programs initiated by, 51, 54; RACCW network, 64, 67. See also Russian Association of Crisis Centers for Women (RACCW) antiprostitution feminism, 120–21 antisexual crusade, 37 antitrafficking. See trafficking appropriation (of norms), 75–76 Arkhangelsk, xiv, 51, 56, 66–67, 109, 112 Armenia, 34, 153 awareness (feminist awareness): of domestic violence, 102–105; donorfeminist alliance and, 150, 153–54, 156–57; as intervention goal, 12, 148, 149; of trafficking, 129–30, 137–38 Page numbers in italics refer to tables and illustrations. ABA-CEELI. See American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative Abubikirova, Nataliia, 129 Activists beyond Borders (Keck and Sikkink), 69 adoption (transnational), 131, 146 Afghanistan, 14 AIDOS (Italian Association for Women in Development), 58, 61 All-Russian Assembly of Non-Governmental Organizations on counteracting trafficking in persons, 134, 145 Altai: Altai Crisis Center for Men, 55, 101; Altai sexual harassment case, 84–85; antitrafficking public awareness campaign, 129; state partnerships in, 116–17. See also Barnaul; Women’s Alliance in Barnaul American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA-CEELI): access in remote areas, 60; antitrafficking initiatives and, 134, 141; CEDAW Assessment Tool by, 91; Dianne Post as crisis center emissary, 89–90, 110; on domestic violence legislative proposals, 107; expansion of crisis centers services and, 54–55; as global-local structural framework component, 7; MCGS seminar on sexual harassment sponsorship, 218 index Bagdasaryan, Sergei, 83–84 Balkans, 157 Barnaul, xiv, 51, 55, 61, 65–66, 90, 112, 116–17, 130. See also Altai; Women’s Alliance in Barnaul battered women’s movements, 94 batterer treatment programs, 51, 55 Beijing Declaration on Women (1995), 162–163 Beijing Platform for Action (1995), 21, 77, 105, 107–108, 117, 121, 162–163 Beijing+10 (U.N. 2005 Commission on the Status of Women), xiii–xiv blame-and-shame model, 75, 75, 92, 95, 97, 117–18 blood feuds, 32 body: bodily integrity, 20, 153; effectiveness of interventions and, 152; female genital mutilation, 153; imagined vs. actual bodies, 41; national vs. individual /gendered body, 138–39, 143; organ donation, 137; postcommunist commodification of women’s bodies, 35, 36 boomerang effect, 5, 74, 146, 155 Bosnia, 8, 71 Bought & Sold, 127, 129–30 boycotts, 126 Brazil, 70 bride abduction, 32 Bridges of Mercy crisis center, 66–67 Bulgaria, 153 Bush, George W.: antitrafficking approach of, 48–49, 62, 124, 149; democracy assistance study and, 6; women’s rights rhetoric of, x–xi Canada, 76 Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), 7 Caritas Foundation, 7 CEDAW. See United Nations—Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women Center of Family Planning, 115 Chechen wars, 32, 39, 64, 133 China, 34 CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency), 7 Clinton, Bill, 48, 81, 89, 96 Clinton, Hillary, 58, 96, 107 Coalition against Trafficking in Women, 120, 130 coercive labor, 136–37, 140 Commission for Women, Family, and Demography, 40, 108 Commission on Improving the Status of Women (Russia), 41 Committee of Beslan Mothers, 39 Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers, 39 Committee on the Affairs of Women, Families, Maternity, and Childhood (Central Federal District), 134 Committee on the Family, Childhood, and Youth, 109 Committee on Women, Family, and Youth, 41, 105, 113, 131 Communist Party Women’s Department (Zhenotdel), 26 comprehensive feminism, 27 consciousness-raising, 12 Consortium of Women’s Nongovernment Associations (formerly NIS-US Women’s Consortium), 41, 52–53, 140. See also NIS-US Women’s Consortium content analysis, 169–70 Coomaraswamy, Radhika, 21 coordinated community approach, 96, 111–12 Coordinating Council on Gender Issues, 41 Council of Europe, 87, 94, 101, 123, 140 Council of Women at Moscow State University, 59 criminal justice: criminalization of trafficking, 119; crisis center training of police, 92; linkage with victim services, 143–44; response to domestic violence, 90, 92, 110–17; response to trafficking, 140–42; role in domestic violence, 151...