Remaining a Ukrainian Woman: Normative Femininity as “Armor” in the Gulag
Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York CityJoin the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Oksana Kis(National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). In the 1940-50s, tens of thousands of Ukrainian women were sentenced to long-term imprisonment in the Gulag for political charges. Their experiences of living in the most brutal conditions of the Soviet camps have not yet been the subject of…