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Author Denisova, L. N.
Денисова, Л. Н

Title Rural women in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia / Liubov Denisova ; edited and translated by Irina Mukhina
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 219 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe
Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe.
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
Summary 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; 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 Khrushchev "Thaw" in the late 1950s and early 1960s, rural women were excluded from its reforms and liberating policies. The author, Luibov Denisova - a leading expert in the field of rural gender history in Russia - includes material from previously unavailable or unpublished collections and archives; interviews; sociological research and oral traditions. Overall, the book is a history of all rural women, from ordinary farm girls to agrarian professionals to prostitutes and paints a unique picture of rural womena€̂'s life in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia.-- Provided by Publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Rural women -- Soviet Union -- History
Rural women -- Russia (Federation) -- History
Rural women -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions
Rural women -- Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions
Women peasants -- Soviet Union -- History
Women peasants -- Russia (Federation) -- History
Women -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions
Women -- Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Rural conditions
Rural women
Rural women -- Social conditions
Women peasants
Women -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Rural conditions
Russia (Federation) -- Rural conditions
Subject Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Mukhina, Irina, 1979-
LC no. 2010021317
ISBN 9780203846841
0203846842
1136937137
9781136937132
1282886282
9781282886285
9786612886287
6612886285