Fiction
Behind their Backs
by Haska Shyyan
The title gives the voice to modern Ukrainian women and touches upon the issues of military and moral duties, search for the feeling of safety in the modern world, patriotism and nationalism, war-time conscription, female sexuality and freedom, social pressure in a patriarchal society, post-Soviet generation of the 1990s, corruption, social inequality and comparison of cultures. The author analyzes challenges the women face in their daily lives and deeps to a very personal level of an individual human being struggling with global circumstances.
