Russia's Women
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Russia's Women

Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Russia's Women

Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation

About this book

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.
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

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Yes, you can access Russia's Women by Barbara Evans Clements, Barbara Alpern Engel, Christine D. Worobec, Barbara Evans Clements,Barbara Alpern Engel,Christine D. Worobec in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Eastern European History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780520070233
eBook ISBN
9780520910195
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Eastern European History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. CONTENTS
  5. ILLUSTRATIONS
  6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  7. NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND DATES
  8. Introduction: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation
  9. Accommodation and Resistance
  10. Women in the Medieval Russian Family of the Tenth through Fifteenth Centuries
  11. Childbirth in Pre-Petrine Russia: Canon Law and Popular Traditions
  12. Women’s Honor in Early Modern Russia
  13. Through the Prism of Witchcraft: Gender and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century Muscovy
  14. Widows and the Russian Serf Community
  15. Infant-Care Cultures in the Russian Empire
  16. Transformation versus Tradition
  17. The Peasant Woman as Healer
  18. Women’s Domestic Industries in Moscow Province, 1880-1900
  19. Abortion and the Civic Order: The Legal and Medical Debates
  20. The Impact of World War I on Russian Women’s Lives
  21. The Female Form in Soviet Political Iconography, 1917-32
  22. Women, Abortion, and the State, 1917-36
  23. GLOSSARY
  24. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER READING
  25. CONTRIBUTORS
  26. INDEX