Rural women in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia /
This is the first full-length history of Russian peasant women in the 20th century in English. Filling a significant gap in the literature on rural studies and gender studies of the twentieth century Russia, it is the first to take the story into the twenty-first century. It offers a comprehensive o...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2010
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| Series: | Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe
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Table of Contents:
- Employment patterns among rural women. Unskilled labor in the countryside
- Female mechanics and machines operators
- Women at the animal wards
- Women as collective farm leaders and agricultural specialists
- Rural intelligentsia
- Migration to cities and the position of newcomers
- Private life. The politics of private life : the evolution and transformation of the Soviet Family Code
- Marriages
- Conflicts and divorces
- Domostroi
- Alcoholism in the countryside
- The female face of the criminal world
- Women of the oldest profession
- Religion
- Triple-burden lifestyle
- Household chores
- The special environment of the village life
- Protection of childhood and motherhood in the countryside
- Abortions