ISBN:
9780801455728
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0801455723
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Women without men
DDC:
306.874320947
Keywords:
Single mothers Russia (Federation)
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Families Russia (Federation)
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Sex role Russia (Federation)
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Post-communism Social aspects
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Russia (Federation)
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Families
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Sex role
;
Post-communism Social aspects
;
Single mothers
;
Post-communism Social aspects
;
Families
;
Sex role
;
Single mothers
;
Families -- Russia (Federation)
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Post-communism -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation)
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Sex role -- Russia (Federation)
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Single mothers -- Russia (Federation) Russia (Federation)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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HISTORY ; Europe ; Russia & the Former Soviet Union
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Families
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Post-communism ; Social aspects
;
Sex role
;
Single mothers
;
Russia (Federation)
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Introduction : a quiet revolution -- From state protections to post-socialist "freedoms" : the changed context of single motherhood -- Diminishing material difficulties : single motherhood beyond survival strategies -- Where the women are strong : navigating practical realism -- It takes a babushka : single mothers' youth privilege and grandmother support -- Blurred boundaries : married mothers and the specter of single motherhood -- Marginalized men : settling for the status quo -- Conclusion : normalized gender crisis.
Abstract:
Women without Men illuminates Russia's "quiet revolution" in family life through the lens of single motherhood. Drawing on extensive ethnographic and interview data, Jennifer Utrata focuses on the puzzle of how single motherhood--frequently seen as a social problem in other contexts--became taken for granted in the New Russia. While most Russians, including single mothers, believe that two-parent families are preferable, many also contend that single motherhood is an inevitable by-product of two intractable problems: "weak men" (reflected, they argue, in the country's widespread, chronic male alcoholism) and a "weak state" (considered so because of Russia's unequal economy and poor social services). Among the daily struggles to get by and get ahead, single motherhood, Utrata finds, is seldom considered a tragedy. Utrata begins by tracing the history of the cultural category of "single mother," from the state policies that created this category after World War II, through the demographic trends that contributed to rising rates of single motherhood, to the contemporary tension between the cultural ideal of the two-parent family and the de facto predominance of the matrifocal family. Providing a vivid narrative of the experiences not only of single mothers themselves but also of the grandmothers, other family members, and nonresident fathers who play roles in their lives, Women without Men maps the Russian family against the country's profound postwar social disruptions and dislocations
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : a quiet revolutionFrom state protections to post-socialist "freedoms" : the changed context of single motherhood -- Diminishing material difficulties : single motherhood beyond survival strategies -- Where the women are strong : navigating practical realism -- It takes a babushka : single mothers' youth privilege and grandmother support -- Blurred boundaries : married mothers and the specter of single motherhood -- Marginalized men : settling for the status quo -- Conclusion : normalized gender crisis.
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https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9780801455728
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