Konfrans materialları (kitab 2) - Bakı Slavyan Universiteti

II Beynəlxalq konfrans
Qafarova Sahibə Əli qızı
Baku Slavic University
Gender Studies in Azerbaijan
The 90s years of the ΧΧ century are characterized by the development of a
global infrastructure and increase of attention to the international problems of
woman. The development of educational programs and research projects on
women and gender problems in the countries of Western Europe, Africa, Near
East, Asia and Latin America has enhanced the information, experience and
resources interchange between scientists and teachers. International summer
schools, conferences have been regularly held with the support of female
organizations.
In 80-90s women and gender research programs appear in Europe as well.
Independent chairs, research associations containing ―gender‖ word in their title
were opened during this period. From the analysis of patriarchy, the policy of
suppression and discrimination inherent to it, the gender researchers passed on to
the analysis of gender systems revealing and analyzing different aspects of a
sociality and culture from gender perspective. In its new interpretation "gender"
concept has no longer been connected exclusively with the female experience, but
has been interpreted as the system of relationships dividing society on the basis of
gender. Recently as the result of growth of attention to women issues common all
over the world, gender studies have become one of the main tendencies in the
development of humanities not only in the Western Europe and the USA, but in
Africa, Asia, and the Eastern Europe as well. Hundreds of people participate
regularly in the international summer and winter schools, conferences, and
congresses held by the female organizations. Generally, as it is well known,
gender studies in Europe could be divided into four periods [3].
In the post-Soviet space the gender issue has began to develop since the
early nineties. When speaking about women researches, there comes a logical
question: «Were there women studies in the USSR?». One would contemplate, if
there could be female studies in the country which had an official line on women
emancipation for the duration of more than 70 years. Certainly, during the period
of socialism there were many researches on women issues such as reproductive
behavior of women, combination work and maternity, etc. However, these works
cannot be referred to women studies because the gender issue was not the object
of those researches. Since the concepts as «women researches» and «women
studies» are considered as equivalent ones there is often a certain kind of
confusion while applying them. As it was truly mentioned by Renata Hof: «The
difference between women studies and studies about women is stipulated by the
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