Rebecca Kay is professor of Russian gender studies at the University of Glasgow. Among her books are Russian Women and their Organizations: Gender, Discrimination and Grassroots Women's Organizations, 1991-96 (Palgrave, 2000) and Men in Contemporary Russia: the Fallen Heroes of Post-Soviet Change? (Ashgate, 2006) and (as editor) Gender, Equality and Difference During And After State Socialism (Palgrave 2007)