Summary

This documentary portrays the lives of and expectations for women and girls in post-Soviet Estonia. Women are generally educated to be self-sufficient and to pursue their talents and ambitions, but within the boundaries of traditional roles as wives and mothers. To be a proper Estonian woman is to care for a family, protect one's purity, and defend one's home and country honorably. The film uses scenes from Native Daughters, a military-inspired civic training program for girls, and beauty pageants organized by a top model in the former Soviet Union, to explore what it means to be a successful Estonian woman. The film features Native Daughters Sergeant Anne Eenpalu and model Tiina Janston.

Gender Montage is a series of nine films from nine countries that explores the state of women in the Post-Soviet era. In some places women are impelled merely to get used to the new economic realities, while in others places, their lives are in permanent danger. Almost nowhere do societies wish to listen to their voices when they speak about their realities. Countries include: Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

Runtime: [00:53:51]

TERMS OF USE: While WLP encourages visitors to our website to explore and share the resources in our Learning Center, we do not permit the publication or exhibition of any of the materials provided by WLP or generated by WLP, in part or in their entirety, in articles, books, digests, documentaries, magazines, movies, newsletters, reports, websites, whitepapers, or other print or digital document or platform, or audio or audio-visual recording, or audio or audio-visual broadcast or podcast, without our written permission. To learn more about how to request permission, please consult our full Terms of Use.