This special issue focuses on protest movements operating outside of the mainstream in patriarchal and authoritarian societies. Themes covered include the place of feminist and gender equality movements in democratically restricted environments, intersections between feminism and nationalism, the possibilities of right-wing feminism and pop feminism, the role of gender in high politics, and the relationship between nationality and sexuality in the context of protest movements. The journal features contributions by scholars, human rights and gender equality activists, and journalists, and facilitates wide-ranging discussion of recent and ongoing protest movements in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.

Introduction, by Olesya KhromeychukArticles
Negotiating Protest Spaces on the Maidan: A Gender Perspective, by Olesya Khromeychuk
Sexuality and Revolution in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Human Rights for the LGBT Community in the Euromaidan Protests of 2013-2014, by Tamara Martsenyuk
Ethical Concerns in Activist Ethnography: The Case of Ukrainian Protest Activism in London and a Russian Female Researcher, by Darya Malyutina
Between Being Witty and Being Pretty: Paradoxes of Female Political Participation in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe, by Evgenia Ivanova
"I'm a Feminist, Therefore...:" The Art of Gender and Sexual Dissent in 2010s Ukraine and Russia, by Olenka Dmytryk
Perspectives & Reflections
Feminist Art in Russia in 2014-15: The Problem of the "Turn to the
Right", by Nadia Plungian
"Wait a Minute, You're a Woman!" Interview with Maria Berlins'ka, by Olesya Khromeychuk
Review Article: East Europe's Women in World War II, by Iryna Kosovs'ka
Reviews
Francesca Stella, Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post?Soviet Russia: Post/Socialism and Gendered Sexualities, by Cai Wilkinson
Jenny Kaminer, Women with a Thirst for Destruction: The Bad Mother in Russian Culture, by Katherine Bowers
Stephen Amico, Roll Over, Tchaikovsky! Russian Popular Music and Post?Soviet Homosexuality, by Catherine Baker
Irina Mukhina, Women and the Birth of Russian Capitalism: A History of Shuttle Trade, by Laura A. Dean
Marian J. Rubchak (ed.), New Imaginaries: Youthful Reinvention of Ukraine's Cultural Paradigm, by Dafna Rachok
Russell Scott Valentino, The Woman in the Window: Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian Novel, by Connor Doak
Valerie Sperling, Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia, by Rustam Gadzhiev
Jennifer Utrata, Women without Men: Single Mothers and Family Change in the New Russia, by Anna Shadrina
Steven Lee Myers, The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin, by Anders Åslund
Thomas W Simons, Jr (ed.), Islam in Eurasia: A Policy Volume, by Shahram Akbarzadeh
Ieva Astahovska et al (eds.), Revisiting Footnotes: Footprints of the Recent Past in the Post-Socialist Region, by Ulrike Gerhardt
About the Contributors