ISBN:
0415551129
,
0203846842
,
9780415551120
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9780203846841
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 219 p)
,
ill
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Serie:
Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe
Serie:
Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Ser.
Paralleltitel:
Print version Rural Women in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia
DDC:
305.40947/091734
Schlagwort(e):
Women peasants History
;
Women Social conditions
;
Women Social conditions
;
Rural women History
;
Rural women Social conditions
;
Rural women History
;
Women peasants History
;
Rural women Social conditions
;
Women peasants - Russia (Federation) - History
;
Electronic books
;
Soviet Union Rural conditions
;
Russia (Federation) Rural conditions
Kurzfassung:
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 overview of regulations concerning rural women: their employment patterns; marriages, divorces and family life; and, issues with health and raising children. Rural lives in the Soviet Union were often dramatically different from the common narrative of the Soviet history, and even during the Khrushch
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Employment patterns among rural women; 1 Women's work; 2 Unskilled labor in the countryside; 3 Female mechanics and machine operators; 4 Women at the animal wards; 5 Women as collective farm leaders and agricultural specialists; 6 Rural intelligentsia; 7 Migration to cities and the position of newcomers; Part II: Private life; 8 The politics of private life: The evolution and transformation of the Soviet Family Code; 9 Marriages; 10 Conflicts and divorces; 11 Domostroi
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
12 Alcoholism in the countryside13 The female face of the criminal world; 14 Women of the oldest profession; 15 Religion; 16 Triple-burden lifestyle; 17 Household chores; 18 The special environment of the village life; 19 Protection of childhood and motherhood in the countryside; 20 Abortions; Conclusions; Notes; Index
Anmerkung:
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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