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"Freedom as a concept shifts with different forms of expression. As the authors of this volume convey in their focus on 'freedom of expression', the idea of 'freedom' in the twenty-first century does not stand apart as a purely physical location marked by national borders. In the Internet Age information is increasingly co-determinate of physical freedom. The information-dense space of the protests of 2021, and beyond, provide soil for the intellectuals writing in this volume to reflect on women's agency in struggles for human rights. Where historical discourse on ""The Woman Question"" once conflicted with ""feminism"" as a perceived importation from the West, this conflict also produced productive tensions that have provided ongoing sites for research. When closely studied, these contexts can deepen global concepts of democracy and justice, providing not only pathways for acts of solidarity and mutual assistance, but intellectual depth and breadth for the future 'ways of knowing', and thus ways of creating, more equitable post-conflict power systems and citizenship amid times of revolution and war. Coming from multiple generations, gender identities, nationalities, and language; the authors in this volume represent the most forward-thinking voices and figures working on gender in the region today."

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'Freedom Taking Place: War, Women and Culture at the Intersection of Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus' is a compelling and original collection. The richness of the sources and the interdisciplinary nature of the methodology is very impressive. [...] The reflection on self-positionality and opening a conversation about the work on the intersection of activism and academic commitment is long overdue in East European studies. I am convinced that this book can become a very strong addition to many courses on Eastern Europe, and feminism as well as courses on art history and gender studies. [...] This book will be a great and important accomplishment. Anna Muller University Michigan-Dearborn This volume, edited by the distinguished expert on women's condition in Eastern and Central Europe, Dr. Jessica Zychowicz, is chock full of conceptual insights and empirical data that elucidate women's struggles to unbound their agency and remove structural constrain to their creativity in three neighboring nations of Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus. Must read for those dealing with gender studies and social transformations of East and Central European nations. Pavlo Fedorchenko-Kutuyev Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Ukraine

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Dr. Jessica Zychowicz is the Director of Fulbright Ukraine & IIE: Institute of International Education, Kyiv Office. She is the author of the award winning book, 'Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First Century Ukraine' (University of Toronto Press 2020), which won the American Association of Ukrainian Studies 2022 Prize, the Honorable Mention for the Omelijan Pritsak Prize for Ukrainian Studies at ASEEES and the Honorable Mention for the Scaglione Prize in Slavic Studies at MLA; a Polish edition appears on Museum of Modern Art Warsaw with Karakter Press. Dr. Zychowicz was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar (2017-2018) to Kyiv Mohyla Academy Department of Sociology. She was a Research Fellow at University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs (2015-2016), and at Uppsala University in Sweden and University of Alberta in Canada. She is currently an elected Board Member of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS), an Advisory Board member of H-Net Ukraine, and a curatorial consultant at Ireland Museum of Modern Art. She has given invited public keynote lectures at universities and museums in the U.S. and Europe, authored many articles and chapters on presses in several countries, and is founding co editor of the Forum for Race and Postcolonialism at 'Krytyka.com'. She earned her doctorate at the University of Michigan and holds a degree in English literature from the University of California Berkeley.For more information on Dr. Jessica Zychowicz, please visit 'www.jes-zychowicz.com'.

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