Women and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union

Herausgeber: Edmondson, Linda

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers an interdisciplinary insight into the study of women and gender relations in Russian and Soviet society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9780521070720
• ISBN-10: 0521070724
• Artikelnr.: 23884930

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. 'Better halves'? Representations of women in Russian urban
popular entertainments, 1870-1910 Catriona Kelly; 2. The Silver Age:
highpoint for women? Charlotte Rosenthal; 3. Women pharmacists in Russia
before World War I: women's emancipation, feminism, professionalization,
nationalism and class conflict Mary Schaeffer Conroy; 4. Women's rights,
civil rights and the debate over citizenship in the 1905 Revolution Linda
Edmondson; 5. Laying the foundations of democracy in Russia: E. D.
Kuskova's contribution, February-October 1917 Barbara T. Norton; 6. Mariia
L. Bochkareva and the Russian amazons of 1917 Richard Abraham; 7. Russian
women writers: an overview. Post-revolutionary dispersion and adjustment
Marina Ledkovsky (Astman); 8 .Victim or villain? Prostitution in
post-revolutionary Russia Elizabeth Waters; 9. Young women and perestroika
Sue Bridger; 10. Glasnost and the woman question Mary Buckley.