Women in Soviet Society / Gail Warshofsky Lapidus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warshofsky Lapidus, Gail, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 p.) : 39 tables

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Politics of Equality and the Soviet Model

1. The Woman Question in Prerevolutionary Russia: Changing Perceptions and Changing Realities

2. Toward Sexual Equality: Revolutionary Transformation and its Limits, 1917-1930

3. The Stalinist Synthesis: Economic Mobilization and New Patterns of Authority

4. Enabling Conditions of Sexual Equality: Affirmative Action, Soviet-Style

5. Women and Work: Changing Economic Roles

6. Women and Power: Changing Political Roles

7. Women and the Family: Changing Attitudes and Behavior

8. Sex Roles and Public Policy: The Spectrum of Reassessments and Proposals

9. Sexual Equality and Soviet Policy: Toward a Comparative Perspective

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520321809

0520321804

OCLC:

1198929375