Tamara Olehivna Martsenyuk (

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

: Тамара Олегівна Марценюк) is a Ukrainian sociologist and academic who specializes in gender studies. She is known for her writing, her analysis of the role of women in the

Euromaidan Euromaidan (; uk, Євромайдан, translit=Yevromaidan, lit=Euro Square, ), or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of Political demonstration, demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protes ...

protests and for her critique of president

Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of Di ...

's comments on women in Ukraine.

Early life

Martsenyuk is from

Volyn Volhynia (also spelled Volynia) ( ; uk, Воли́нь, Volyn' pl, Wołyń, russian: Волы́нь, Volýnʹ, ), is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, between south-eastern Poland, south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine. The ...

and grew up in the

Troieshchyna Troieshchyna (, uk, Троєщина, lit=Trinity, translit=Troyeshchyna) also known as Vyhurivschyna-Troieshchyna since 1997 (, uk, Вигурівщина-Троєщина) is a large neighborhood of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, the biggest ...

neighborhood of

Kyiv, Ukraine Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyi ...

Education

She has a PhD in sociology from the

National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy ( NaUKMA) ( uk, Національний університет «Києво-Могилянська академія» (НаУКМА)) is a national, research university located in Kyiv, Ukraine. The ...

and studied at the

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. She completed a scholarship at the

University of Gothenburg The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 st ...

, and a postdoctoral fellowship at

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's Centre for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.

Career

Since 2004, Martsenyuk has worked at the department of sociology at Ukraine's

where she currently is an assistant professor focused on gender studies, feminism as a social theory and a social movement gender and politics, masculinity and men's studies. She has taught in the US (both

and

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

) Canada, Germany (at the

European University Viadrina European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (german: Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)) is a university located at Frankfurt (Oder) in Brandenburg, Germany. It is also known as the University of Frankfurt (Oder). The city is on the ...

), the United Kingdom, Finland, Estonia, Belgium, Lithuania, Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland. Together with Maria Berlinska and other women, Martsenyuk launched the Invisible Battalion project in 2015 advocating for

gender equality Gender equality, also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing d ...

in the

Armed Forces of Ukraine , imports = , exports = , history = , ranks = Military ranks of Ukraine , country=Ukraine The Armed Forces of Ukraine ( uk, Збро́йні си́ли Украї́ни), most commonly known ...

Views

Martsenyuk was critical of comments made by

at the 2011

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meeting which she described as an endorsement of sex tourism in Ukraine. Her co-authored paper ''Mothers and Daughters of the Maidan'' discussed the role of women in the

protests, pointing out that the majority of protestors were women between late November 2013 and Early January 2014, prior to the subsequent escalations in violence and militarization.Nikolayenko, Olena. “Invisible Revolutionaries: Women’s Participation in the Revolution of Dignity.” ''Comparative Politics'', vol. 52, no. 3, 2020, pp. 451–72, . Accessed 17 Apr. 2022. With Olga Onuch, she also reported the increasing influence of non-Ukrainians at the protests.

Selected publications

Books

* ''Гендер для всіх: виклик стереотипам'' (English: ''Gender for All: A Challenge to Stereotypes'') (2017) * ''Чому не варто боятися фемінізму?'' (English: ''Why Not Be Afraid of Feminism?'') (2018)

Academic writing

* ''Genderna sotsiologiia Maidanu: Rol zhinok u protestah (Sociology of gender of the Maidan: The role of women in protests)'' (Kyiv: Electronic Archive of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, 2014), http://ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/handle/123456789/3511. * Olga Onuch and Tamara Martsenyuk, ''Mothers and Daughters of the Maidan: Gender, Repertoires of Violence, and the Division of Labour in Ukrainian Protests",'' Social, Health, and Communication Studies Journal, 1 (November 2014), 105–26, 113. *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Martsenyuk, Tamara Living people People from Volyn Oblast Ukrainian feminists 21st-century Ukrainian writers 21st-century Ukrainian women writers Ukrainian academics National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy alumni Academic staff of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy University of Oslo alumni University of Gothenburg alumni 1981 births