(2020)
The fifth volume of “WOMEN IN POLITICS: NEW APPROACHES TO THE POLITICAL”.

(2014)
The fourth volume of “WOMEN IN POLITICS: NEW APPROACHES TO THE POLITICAL” reflects on the private as the (in)visible public. The authors investigate how public discourse and its governmental and sociocultural representations control private lives. The volume addresses marginalisation of the gendered private that does not fit the heteronormative matrix. The contributors analyse the patterns of hidden oppression of the private by the public discourses that shape our perceptions of identity, sexual orientation, profession, fashion, and governmental initiatives.

(2013)
The third volume of “WOMEN IN POLITICS: NEW APPROACHES TO THE POLITICAL” journal explores the gendered effects of the Public/Private divide and investigates what can be revealed if the notion of “Public” approached as the politicized “Private”. The categories of “Public” and “Private” are crucial in interpretations of politics, law, women’s participation in public life, social stratification, and gender equality. The volume addresses how the category of “Private” emerges and submits to the category of “Public”. Personal and private choices appear to be regulated by the public discourse, governmental politics, “common sense” social expectations, and more. The intersectionality of public/private – be it represented as a dichotomy or not – lies at the core of power division and related societal inequalities.

(2013)
The second volume of “WOMEN IN POLITICS: NEW APPROACHES TO THE POLITICAL” journal revisits the theme of “Personal as Political.” It is important to revisit this topic in the context of the current political and social transformations in Belarus, the Russian Federation, Ukraine and other post-Soviet states. Therefore the volume opens with a translation of the famous essay by Carol Hanisch “The Personal Is Political” which was originally published in 1969 and is still relevant in many ways. When we called for submissions we aimed to define and investigate the issues that charge private matters with political meanings. We intended to find out what private “problems”, intentionally or not, get public and political attention. Interestingly, the received submissions clearly divided into three subjects: emancipation and women’s political participation, reproductive freedom, and the politics of sexuality.

(2012)
The first volume of “WOMEN IN POLITICS: NEW APPROACHES TO THE POLITICAL” journal is entitled “Pol politiki”. This Russian phrase plays with the double meaning of the Russian word "pol": translated as “gender” and “half”. In our case, this polysemy is symbolic because the androcentric vision of political issues in post-Soviet countries consistently excludes women. That is, it excludes half of the population. Therefore, we decided to start a dialogue with our readers by questioning the “gender” of politics which is questioning the “half” of politics and the Belarusian population. The volume offers the analysis of complications with “gender” terminology and research in post-Soviet countries by Segruei A. Oushakine and Alexander Pershái. Another section of the journal investigates the cultural consumption of gender in present-day Belarus. The classic essay on women and consumerism by Ellen Willis opens this discussion.