The Women’s Movement and Violence Against Women in Russia and Armenia (Research Brief)

In brief, this research trip allowed me to bolster the findings in my dissertation so that I can finish my book manuscript and to add a detailed case study of Armenian organizations to two articles comparing domestic violence policy and women’s movement development in post-Soviet states. I was fortunate to discover that one of the processes that I had been observing for five years in Russia, the naming of the problem of domestic violence, had come to fruition. While Russia women’s organizations still face tremendous obstacles to getting effective policies implemented, over the course of the last few years domestic violence has gone from being a completely hidden problem, so hidden that there was no name for the phenomenon, to a problem with a name. The same is not true in Armenia.

Download the pdf at the top of this page for the full brief.

Janet Johnson, of Miami University, was a 2002-03 Short-Term Travel Grants fellow.