Book contents
- Invisible Revolutionaries
- Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
- Invisible Revolutionaries
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Women’s Activism in a Historical Perspective
- 3 Drivers of Women’s Participation in the Revolution of Dignity
- 4 Women’s Roles During a Revolution
- 5 Gender Outcomes of the Revolution and the Russia–Ukraine War
- 6 Conclusion
- Book part
- Index
4 - Women’s Roles During a Revolution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2025
- Invisible Revolutionaries
- Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
- Invisible Revolutionaries
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Women’s Activism in a Historical Perspective
- 3 Drivers of Women’s Participation in the Revolution of Dignity
- 4 Women’s Roles During a Revolution
- 5 Gender Outcomes of the Revolution and the Russia–Ukraine War
- 6 Conclusion
- Book part
- Index
Summary
This chapter highlights a diversity of women’s roles during the Revolution of Dignity, which aligns well with a hybrid model of women’s participation in a contemporary revolution. Drawing on rich data from oral history projects, the book identifies twelve main domains of women’s activism, including art production, crowdsourcing, food provision, legal aid, medical services, public order, and public relations. This chapter challenges a binary construction of women’s involvement in stereotypically feminine or stereotypically masculine activities during a period of mass mobilization. The patriarchal model of women’s participation in a revolution assumes a gender-based division of labor within a revolutionary movement, which reinforces preexisting patriarchal norms in society. The emancipatory model, on the contrary, assumes women’s access to formal positions of leadership within the movement. Located between these two extremes, the hybrid model of women’s participation in a revolution acknowledges the diversity and fluidity of women’s roles. According to the hybrid model, women might adopt three different strategies: (1) acquiescence to a traditional gender-based division of labor, (2) appropriation of the masculine forms of resistance, and (3) adoption of gender-neutral roles or switching from stereotypically feminine to stereotypically masculine roles.
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- Invisible RevolutionariesWomen's Participation in Ukraine's Euromaidan, pp. 102 - 128Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025