Publications

Sapo Mgeladze Book

The Real Story of My Life: Sapo Mgeladze

Published: 25 April 2025
Sapo Mgeladze’s “The Real Story of My Life” is a truly important text in many ways. It is elusive in genre, but it intersects between documentary prose and memoir, with elements of a diary, and is unequivocally the “key to the writer’s biography and creativity” (Kupreishvili, 2023). At the same time, the era, the fate of a person and an artist in a repressive state, the multiple layers of gender and power relations. The relationship between the narrative of the text and the historical context in which it was created are read with particular intensity here.
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Women in the Extractive Zone

Published: 16 February 2024
This study analyzes extractivism in light of multiple forms of extraction operations that take place in Bolnisi and while doing so, it adopts the broader definition of the concept.
პუბლიკაციის ყდაზეა კოლაჟი, საარქივო ფოტოებით, სადაც ასახულია მედიცინის მუშაკები საქმიანობის შესრულებისას.

Women in Medicine

Published: 24 March 2022
"Women in Medicine" – is the name of the project, which aspires to compile Georgian printed periodical publications of the second half of the XIX century ("Droeba," "Iveria," "Tsnobis Purtseli") and to collect archival materials on women's contribution to the healthcare affairs.
Queer Feelings

Queer Feelings

Published: 2 February 2021
The purpose of Queer theory, by its most common definition, is to challenge heteronormativity and existing, already defined categories of sexuality constantly. It speaks about the specificities and limits of struggles, which are produced by these categories. Queer theory formed the basis for Queer activism.
housewives on the front war

Housewives on the home front

Published: 12 January 2021
Based on private wartime letters, this paper reviews the roles and experiences of women on the home front in Georgia during the Second World War. In doing so, it refers to the gender policy pursued by the Soviet Union at that time.

Fight for the Public Space: When Personal is Political

Published: 24 March 2017
Public space is not gender neutral. This statement might sound provocative, but if we ask who we see most in the public space and whose interests and comfort it is tailored to, we will discover that the public space to this day remains the domain of young and healthy men of the right religious confession and sexual orientation. Women have fought and won the right to physically occupy the public space, but in the Georgian context this space is not gender sensitive or fitted to women's needs and safety concerns.

Legal Situation of LGBTI Persons in Georgia

Published: 30 June 2016
As historically traditional societies, Georgia and Armenia have come a long way since the fall of the Soviet Union in terms of certain aspects of development. However, numerous challenges persist in the context of human rights, foretelling a long, arduous, obstacle-ridden road towards the achievement of equal rights for all groups. 

The Human Rights Situation of LGBTI Individuals in Armenia. A Practical Assessment

Published: 30 June 2016
As historically traditional societies, Georgia and Armenia have come a long way since the fall of the Soviet Union in terms of certain aspects of development. However, numerous challenges persist in the context of human rights, foretelling a long, arduous, obstacle-ridden road towards the achievement of equal rights for all groups.