Armenia
To change the system from within or without — the dilemma for feminists in ‘New Armenia’
As more and more women choose to enter politics in revolutionary ‘New Armenia’, a debate is raging within the country’s feminist circles: how best to transform Armenia’s patriarchal systems — from within or without. ‘It was the methods of the Velvet Revolution, i.e. de-centralisation, horizontality, that allowed women to participate. You didn’t have to push women to take a political action — it happened naturally. Because the street was not hierarchic, if not anarchic.’ This is how femin
