Four women at the top: The self-image and media representation of female leaders in Soviet and Post-Soviet Estonian architecture
Focusing on four case studies of high-ranking Estonian architects, the article analyses the career goals and possibilities for advancement of women in design in the Soviet and the post-Soviet periods. Based on in-depth interviews and representation in mainstream and professional media, the article c...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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DINÂMIA’CET – IUL, Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies
2022-10-01
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| Series: | Cidades, Comunidades e Território |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cidades/6088 |
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| Summary: | Focusing on four case studies of high-ranking Estonian architects, the article analyses the career goals and possibilities for advancement of women in design in the Soviet and the post-Soviet periods. Based on in-depth interviews and representation in mainstream and professional media, the article compares and juxtaposes the architects’ public personas and self-perception as revealed in the interviews, highlighting the conditions of self-realization, organizational and design goals, networks of support and balancing the demands of high-profile design and managerial jobs with personal and family responsibilities. The cases reveal a complicated and ambivalent relationship to feminist agenda and the local specificities of the problem, delineating its possible causes from the Soviet to the post-Soviet period, and at the same time pointing towards the changes that have occurred with the transition from the socialist to the democratic state. |
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| ISSN: | 2182-3030 |