Series/Report no.
Global Feminisms Russia Site Interview
Description
The Global Feminisms Project (https://globalfeminisms.umich.edu/) is a collaborative international oral history project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements, and academic women's studies in sites around the world. The current archive includes interviews with women's movement activists and women's studies scholars in China, India, Nicaragua, Poland, and the United States. We are currently working on adding interviews from Brazil and Russia. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the U.S. site research team. Our international collaborators include: - Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem - UFF (the Laboratory of Oral History and Images at the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro) and Núcleo de História, Memória e Documento - NUMEM (the Center for History, Memory, and Documentation at the Federal State University in Rio de Janeiro), BRAZIL - China Women's University in Beijing, CHINA - SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women in Mumbai, INDIA - Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres de Nicaragua (Autonomous Women's Movement), NICARAGUA - Fundacja Kobiet eFKa (Women's Foundation eFKa) in Krakow, POLAND
Abstract
Natal'ia Mikhailovna Rimashevskaia was born on March 29, 1932, in Moscow. She is a Doctor of Economics (1976), professor at Moscow State University (1978) and at the Academy of Labor and Social Relations. In 1955 she graduated from the Department of Law at Moscow State University (along with Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev, with whom she has always been close) and from the Moscow Financial Institute in 1957.