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Rural women in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia, Liubov Denisova ; edited and translated by Irina Mukhina

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Rural women in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia

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Liubov Denisova ; edited and translated by Irina Mukhina

Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe

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- a leading expert in the field of rural gender history in Russia - includes material from previously unavailable or unpublished collections and archives; interviews; sociological research and oral traditions.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 womenâ€s life in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia.--, Provided by Publisher

pt. 1. Employment patterns among rural women -- Women's work: an overview -- Unskilled labor in the countryside -- Female mechanics and machines operators -- Women at the animal wards -- Women as collective farm leaders and agricultural specialists -- Rural intelligentsia -- Migration to cities and the position of newcomers -- pt. 2. Private life -- The politics of private life : the evolution and transformation of the Soviet Family Code -- Marriages -- Conflicts and divorces -- Domostroi -- Alcoholism in the countryside -- The female face of the criminal world -- Women of the oldest profession -- Religion -- Triple-burden lifestyle -- Household chores -- The special environment of the village life -- Protection of childhood and motherhood in the countryside -- Abortions