What does it mean to live in a world where the path goes towards depletion of care and natural resources, rather than preservation, renewal, and nourishment? Who and what benefits from the care crisis, and what feelings and actions have the ability to resist?
Sapo Mgeladze’s “The Real Story of My Life” is a truly important text in many ways. It is elusive in genre, but it intersects between documentary prose and memoir, with elements of a diary, and is unequivocally the “key to the writer’s biography and creativity” (Kupreishvili, 2023). At the same time, the era, the fate of a person and an artist in a repressive state, the multiple layers of gender and power relations. The relationship between the narrative of the text and the historical context in which it was created are read with particular intensity here.
“Masculinities in the South Caucasus: Forms, Hierarchies, and Challenges” follows an interdisciplinary, multi-format approach, containing academic articles, autobiographical stories, oral histories, and illustrations.
In their original contributions, sixteen authors from/based in the South Caucasus discuss masculinities to diverse social phenomena, including, but not limited to, clothing, fatherhood, sports, the military, criminal practices, and sexual identity.
"Women in Medicine" – is the name of the project, which aspires to compile Georgian printed periodical publications of the second half of the XIX century ("Droeba," "Iveria," "Tsnobis Purtseli") and to collect archival materials on women's contribution to the healthcare affairs.
The publication was prepared as a result of a joint project Women and History implemented by the Heinrich Boell Foundation offices in Kyiv and Tbilisi.
This book unites Georgian translations of 6 academic essays from the feminist theory written by prominent feminist authors: A. Rich, C. T. Mohanty, N. Taub and E. Schneider, S. M. Okin, U. Narayan and C. Enloe.
This book is comprised of Armenian translations of seven key pieces that belong to the 1980s feminist theory - however, the articles were selected with an aim to illuminate questions and debates of the feminist thought throughout the history.
Publication "Fight for the Public Space: When Private is Political" presents a collection of articles prepared in the frameworks of the International Gender Workshop, organized in March 2016 in Tbilisi.
This study report "From Prejudice To Equality: Study of societal attitudes towards LGBTI people in Armenia" was prepared by NGO PINK Armenia within the frames of the EU-funded project “Solidarity Network for LGBTI in Armenia and Georgia” implemented by the South Caucasus Regional Office of the Heinrich Boell Foundation.
The study “From Prejudice To Equality: Attitudes, Knowledge and Information Regarding the LGBT Community and Their Rights” is a study report prepared by WISG in the frames of the EU-funded project “ Solidarity Network for LGBTI in Armenia and Georgia ”.
The present report aims at the comprehensive description and documentation of the human rights situation of LGBTI persons and state policies in Georgia. The report reviews the situation for LGBTI persons in relation to each right, identifies systemic problems on legislative, institutional, and human rights levels, and proposes specific recommendations for relevant state agencies.
This study report "The Human Rights Situation of LGBTI Individuals in Armenia. A Practical Assessment" was prepared by Society Without Violence NGO within the frames of the EU-funded project “Solidarity Network for LGBTI in Armenia and Georgia” implemented by the South Caucasus Regional Office of the Heinrich Boell Foundation.
The concept of "gender backlash" encompasses too activities pursued by a multitude of different local initiatives all over Central and Eastern Europe, which strongly promote tradition over equality. In many cases these groups appear to be backed and inspired both by influential US-American “pro life” organisations as well as the Kremlin’s "Gay-rope" propaganda, which aims to discredit the European Union as a place of moral decline.
This is a collection of articles prepared on the basis of lecture series "Who is afraid of feminism in Georgia?" by HBF South Caucasus Regional Office.
In 2013 HBF South Caucasus Regional Office published the first edition of book "Kato Mikeladze: Unknown Stories of Georgian Feminism" to introduce Kato Mikeladze, a feminist activist of the early 20th century to a wider public and spread the word about the heritage she contributed to the local feminist thought.
