Articles by Janet Elise Johnson

March 4, 2024

🌈 Lessons on authoritarian regime dynamics from Russia’s politics of domestic violence

Janet Elise Johnson

Russia has engaged in some dramatic genderbashing. Most notably in its proclaimed embrace of 'traditional values' as part of an attempt to justify its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. However, writes Janet Elise Johnson, its politics of domestic violence over the last decade have been remarkably contentious

Janet Elise Johnson

Endowed Chair in Women’s and Gender Studies, Brooklyn College, City University New York / Professor, Political Science & Women’s / Gender Studies, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center

Janet is a specialist on Russia, gender, feminist activism, and gendered violence.

Her work has appeared in The Conversation, The New Yorker, The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, The Boston Review, The Nation, and the Kennan Russia File, as well as in four scholarly books and two dozen articles and book chapters.

The Routledge Handbook of Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Routledge, 2022
co-edited with Katalin Fábián and Mara Lazda
Winner, Heldt prize for best book in Slavic / East European / Eurasian Women’s and Gender Studies, from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies

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