Jyothi Kanics

Jyothi Kanics

Women's Movements On-line: The New Post-Socialist Revolution

Women's Movements On-line: The New Post-Socialist Revolution

Jyothi Kanics was mentioned for her role in the role in the Network of East-West Women at the SAIS Review, 1996:

Women's Movements On-line: The New Post-Socialist Revolution by Shana Penn

Jelica Todosijevic, feminist activist and email trainer in Serbia, comments:

"Last year at about this time, we [women in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union] discovered e-mail. After that, nothing was like before. Now we are no longer imprisoned by state limitations and censorship. Now we can read and learn the same things that the rest of the world does and contribute with our own experiences."

Six years ago this autumn, when the communist bloc collapsed and its hermetic borders opened, thousands of westerners began entering the region, driven by curiosity for the people and forces that effect social change. As one US human rights activist wrote that winter, 'The revolutions were astounding to witness. The bit of democracy that has been won is precious and fragile, and we in the West share responsibility for protecting it, now that the excitement and drama is being replaced by the very real demands of political and economic change."

Shana Penn is executive director of Network of East-West Women, In Washington, D.C. and a writer completing a book about women's roles in anti-Communist opposition movements in central Europe.

For their contributions, Ms. Penn wishes to thank: Roma Ciesla, Jyothi Kanics, Eliza Klose; Marjorie Lightman, Sonia Jaffe Robbins, Amy Rubin, Ann Snitow, Jelica Todosijevic, Victoria Vrana, and Galina Vendiktova.