In postsocialist Ukraine, with privatization and the scaling back of the                  social safety net, it is primarily women who have been left as leaders of                  service-oriented NGOs and mutual aid associations, caring for the marginalized and                  destitute with little or no support from the Ukrainian state. Sarah D. Phillips                  follows 11 activists over the course of several years to document the unexpected                  effects that social activism has produced for women: increasing social inequality                  and "differentiation" in the form of new cultural criteria for productive                  citizenship and new definitions of the rights and needs of various categories of                  citizens.

Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine: Development and the Politics of Differentiation (New Anthropologies of Europe) PDF

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