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A Smart Hot Russian Girl from Odessa: When Gender Meets Ethnicity in Academia

  • Olga Burlyuk(author)
Chapter of: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe(pp. 163–180)
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Title A Smart Hot Russian Girl from Odessa
SubtitleWhen Gender Meets Ethnicity in Academia
ContributorOlga Burlyuk(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0331.17
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0331/chapters/10.11647/obp.0331.17
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightOlga Burlyuk
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2023-05-11
Long abstract

The idea of Ukrainian women as a highly sexualised local product is not only omnipresent in the Internet commercials for ‘hot Russian girls from Odessa’ and ‘best escort girls in Kiev’, but also is regularly fanned at the highest political levels. But what becomes of it when a Ukrainian woman leaves Ukraine to orbit the academic circles? In this essay, I walk down memory lane and recollect my professional interactions at the intersection of gender and ethnicity, spanning 15 years (2006-2020) and offering an elaborate sketch of everyday sexism and gendered racism in academia.

Page rangepp. 163–180
Print length18 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Olga Burlyuk

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Assistant Professor at University of Amsterdam
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7477-1655
References
  1. Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life (Duke University Press, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822373377
  2. Olga Burlyuk, ‘Fending off a triple inferiority complex in academia: An autoethnography’, Journal of Narrative Politics 6/1 (2019): 28–50.
  3. Irena Karpa, Yak Vyhodyty Zamizh Stilky Raziv, Skilky Zahochete [How to marry as many times as you want] (#knyholav, 2020).

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