A tender around gender In Krytyka, No. 3 (3), 1998, pp. 21-23.

This article focuses on the history of the women's rights movement in Ukraine. The text consists of two parts.

The first part discusses the problems faced by feminism in post-Soviet Ukraine: the marginalization of women's rights in the media, the lack of continuity in feminist thought, and the tension between feminism and nationalism. The author positively portrays Natalia Kobrynska, the founding figure of the Ukrainian women's rights movement, who, contrary to the Ukrainian socialist mainstream of the time, insisted that without solving issues that affect women specifically, an attempt to establish economic equality would lead to even greater oppression of women. The article traces the path from the stagnation of feminism during Ukraine's time as a part of the USSR to the emergence of women's organizations and gender research centers, conferences, and attempts at feminist criticism within the humanities after Ukraine's independence.

The second part of the article is a review of the work Women's Political Unconscious: The Problem of Gender and the Women's Movement in Ukraine by Iryna Zherebkina. The author criticizes Zherebkina for her biased and oversimplified perception of Ukrainian nationalism, academic dishonesty, and internalization of a colonial point of view. However, she considers the very fact of the emergence of literature that explores gender issues in the Ukrainian context to be a positive thing.