Liubov Denisova

Rural Women in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Mukhina, Irina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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- a leading expert in the field of rural gender history in Russia - includes material from previously unavailable or unpublished collections and archives; interviews; sociological research and oral traditions.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 womenâEUR(TM)s life in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136937125
• Artikelnr.: 42983088

Autorenporträt

Liubov Denisova is Professor of History at the Russian State University of Oil and Gas. Her books include the bestselling Zhenshchiny russkikh selenii (Women of Russian Villages) and Sud'ba russkoi krestianki (The Fate of Russian Peasant Women).

Irina Mukhina is Assistant Professor of History at Assumption College, Massachusetts, USA. She is author of The Germans of the Soviet Union (also published by Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

PART I. Employment patterns among rural women 1. Unskilled labor in the
countryside 2. Female mechanics and machines operators 3. Women at the
animal wards 4. Women as collective farm leaders and agricultural
specialists 5. Rural intelligentsia 6. Migration to cities and the position
of newcomers PART II. Private Life 7. The politics of private life: the
evolution and transformation of the Soviet Family Code 8. Marriages 9.
Conflicts and divorces 10. Domostroi 11. Alcoholism in the countryside 12.
The female face of the criminal world 13. Women of the oldest profession
14. Religion 15. Triple-burden lifestyle 16. Household chores 17. The
special environment of the village life 18. Protection of childhood and
motherhood in the countryside 19. Abortions