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Valerie Sperling

Valerie Sperling is professor of political science at Clark University. She is the author of "Altered States: The Globalization of Accountability" (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and "Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia: Engendering Transition" (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Femen’s Tactics Send Mixed Feminist Messages

By Valerie Sperling & Por Alison Bowen ● Arts & Culture ● January 18, 2015

The Ukrainian women’s group troubles some feminist activists because of their self-objectification of the female body and the fairly uniform appearance of the group, says Valerie Sperling in this excerpt from her book “Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia.”

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