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 twentieth century in English, and tells the story of all rural women - from ordinary farm girls to agrarian professionals to prostitutes. It offers a comprehensive overview of employment patterns; marriages, divorces and family life; issues with health and raising children; and official regulations concerning rural women.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 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