Women’s transnational encounters at the Cold War periphery

This project is a continuation of my research on women's transnational history during the Cold War. I plan publishing a book on women's encounters preliminary titled "East-South gendered encounters under the Cold War. Development and women’s rights from Tashkent to Havana and beyond".

This project is aimed to answer the next questions:-How was the global connectivity under the Cold War gendered and what role did women’s encounters at the periphery of the main Cold War geopolitical locations play for the cooperation for social progress, development and women’s rights?-What did women participating in the encounters learn from each other, what ideas were in the center of the transnational communication and exchange?-How were the ideas and practices of development and women’s rights that originated in the Cold War centers challenged in the process of these peripheral encounters?

The proposed project will explore the meanings and effects of the encounters through bringing in the perspective of flexible “East” and “South” and through paying attention to complexities of (dis)connectivity of subjects marked by ideological, racial and economic differences.