A Smart Hot Russian Girl from Odessa

Open Access
Authors
Publication date 2023
Host editors
  • O. Burlyuk
  • L. Rahbari
Book title Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe
ISBN
  • 9781800649231
  • 9781800649248
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781800649255
  • 9781800649262
Chapter 17
Pages (from-to) 163-180
Number of pages 20
Publisher Cambridge: OpenBook Publishers
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract The idea of Ukrainian women as a highly sexualised local product is not only omnipresent in the Internet commercials for ‘hot Russian girls from Odessa’ and ‘best escort girls in Kiev’, but also is regularly fanned at the highest political levels. But what becomes of it when a Ukrainian woman leaves Ukraine to orbit the academic circles? In this essay, I walk down memory lane and recollect my professional interactions at the intersection of gender and ethnicity, spanning 15 years (2006-2020) and offering an elaborate sketch of everyday sexism and gendered racism in academia.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0331.17
Published at https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0331/chapters/10.11647/obp.0331.17
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