The presentation will discuss how feminism and critical investigations of gender more broadly have been interpreted in Estonia in the years of postsocialist transition and, more recently, in the context of neoliberal and populist challenges. The Estonian case will be placed within the broader framework of postsocialist experiences within transnational feminism as well as postcolonial and decolonial debates.
Raili Marling is Professor of English Studies at the University of Tartu. Her main research interests include gender in modernist and contemporary literature and cultural practices; affects of neoliberalism; the reception of gender in the postsocialist context; the possibilities of combining affect and discourse studies; politics of representation. She has published extensively on these topics internationally and in Estonian. She is the author of the first Estonian textbook on gender studies and has collaborated with various governmental and non-governmental organizations on gender issues.
