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Beauty will save the world

Oksana Kis’

“Beauty Will Save The World!”: Feminine Strategies in Ukrainian Politics and the Case of Yulia Tymoshenko

September 1, 2005. The traditional annual celebration of the “first bell” takes place at the primary school of Sosnivka, a small coalE mining town in Western Ukraine.[1] The firstEgrade
students are presenting a short performance. A tiny girl, Darynka, dressed in a lacy skirt, a red jacket with a downy collar and a wrapEaround braid borrowed by her grandmother
from a beauty salon especially for the occasion) comes to the front. She recites with special expression a poem written by her female teacher.

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