Russia's women : accommodation, resistance, transformation / edited by Barbara Evans Clements, Barbara Alpern Engel, Christine D. Worobec.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clements, Barbara Evans, 1945- editor.

Engel, Barbara Alpern, editor.

Worobec, Christine D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Soviet Union--History.

Women.

Women--Soviet Union--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.) : 19 illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By ignoring gender issues, historians have failed to understand how efforts to control women--and women's reactions to these efforts--have shaped political and social institutions and thus influenced the course of Russian and Soviet history. These original essays challenge a host of traditional assumptions by integrating women into the Russian past. Using recent advances in the study of gender, the family, class, and the status of women, the authors examine various roles of Russian women and offer a broad overview of a vibrant and growing field.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND DATES

Introduction: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation

Accommodation and Resistance

Women in the Medieval Russian Family of the Tenth through Fifteenth Centuries

Childbirth in Pre-Petrine Russia: Canon Law and Popular Traditions

Women's Honor in Early Modern Russia

Through the Prism of Witchcraft: Gender and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century Muscovy

Widows and the Russian Serf Community

Infant-Care Cultures in the Russian Empire

Transformation versus Tradition

The Peasant Woman as Healer

Women's Domestic Industries in Moscow Province, 1880-1900

Abortion and the Civic Order: The Legal and Medical Debates

The Impact of World War I on Russian Women's Lives

The Female Form in Soviet Political Iconography, 1917-32

Women, Abortion, and the State, 1917-36

Later Developments: Trends in Soviet Women's History, 1930 to the Present

GLOSSARY

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER READING

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780585119670

0585119678

9780520910195

0520910192

OCLC:

1163877872