ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the relationship between the sexual division of domestic space and the division of domestic labour, and secondly on the relationship between the division of domestic space and the position of women outside the home. In both of the rural areas, in contrast to Soviet urban planning, housing is far from uniform and standardised, since each family plans a home for itself according to whatever supply of materials can be obtained in an irregular, scarce market. A house consists of one or two such rooms, or more, undifferentiated in contents and function. A man and his wife and children will sit and eat here. They will also sleep here, either with all their children with the very youngest, the others going next door. It is important to remember in both cases that the patterns outlined are only indicative of general trends since other factors, and in particular migration to the towns, have a strongly modifying action.
