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      Rural Women in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia
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      Rural Women in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia book

      ByLiubov Denisova, Irina Mukhina
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2010
      eBook Published 30 August 2010
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203846841
      Pages 240
      eBook ISBN 9780203846841
      Subjects Area Studies, Humanities, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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      Denisova, L. (2010). Rural Women in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia (I. Mukhina, Ed.) (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203846841

      ABSTRACT

      This is the first full-length history of Russian peasant women in the 20th century in English. Filling a significant gap in the literature on rural studies and gender studies of the twentieth century Russia, it is the first to take the story into the twenty-first century. It offers a comprehensive overview of regulations concerning rural women: their employment patterns; marriages, divorces and family life; issues with health and raising children. Rural lives in the Soviet Union were often dramatically different from the common narrative of the Soviet history, and even during the Khrushchev "Thaw" in the late 1950s and early 1960s, rural women were excluded from its reforms and liberating policies.

      The author, Luibov Denisova - a leading expert in the field of rural gender history in Russia - includes material from previously unavailable or unpublished collections and archives; interviews; sociological research and oral traditions. Overall, the book is a history of all rural women, from ordinary farm girls to agrarian professionals to prostitutes and paints a unique picture of rural women’s life in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |4 pages

      Introduction

      part |2 pages

      PART I Employment patterns among rural women

      chapter 1|6 pages

      Women’s work: an overview

      chapter 2|11 pages

      Unskilled labor in the countryside

      chapter 3|10 pages

      Female mechanics and machine operators

      chapter 4|7 pages

      Women at the animal wards

      chapter 5|5 pages

      Women as collective farm leaders and agricultural specialists

      chapter 6|8 pages

      Rural intelligentsia

      chapter 7|11 pages

      Migration to cities and the position of newcomers

      part |2 pages

      PART II Private life

      chapter 8|17 pages

      The politics of private life: The evolution and transformation of the Soviet Family Code

      chapter 9|9 pages

      Marriages

      chapter 10|10 pages

      Conflicts and divorces

      chapter 11|8 pages

      Domostroi

      chapter 12|12 pages

      Alcoholism in the countryside

      chapter 13|5 pages

      The female face of the criminal world

      chapter 14|4 pages

      Women of the oldest profession

      chapter 15|11 pages

      Religion

      chapter 16|8 pages

      Triple-burden lifestyle

      chapter 17|10 pages

      Household chores

      chapter 18|3 pages

      The special environment of the village life

      chapter 19|12 pages

      Protection of childhood and motherhood in the countryside

      chapter 20|8 pages

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