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This book explores the lives and expectations of young women in the new Russia, looking at the enormous changes that the new social and economic environment have brought.
The authors draw on the growing literature on gender and generation in the West which has arisen as a result of the recognition that the experience of youth is classed, raced and gendered and that the experience of gender is mediated by class, race, ethnicity, sexuality and age. They consider the role of the media, state and social institutions in shaping opportunities and experiences in the post-Soviet environment, focusing on the strategies employed by individual women to reforge social identities in a society in which they have been dislocated more acutely than in any other `postmodern' society.
List of contents
Part I: Surviving the New Social Environment: Strategies at Home, Work and School 1. Gender and Generation on the New Russian Labour Market 2. Employment Strategies and the Formation of New Identities in the Service Sector in Moscow 3. Women's Career Patterns in Industry: A Generational Comparison 4. Orientations, Re-Orientations or Disorientations? Expectations of the Future among Russian School Leavers Part II: The New Russian Woman: Femininity, Sexuality and Power 5. Young People, Sex and Sexual Identity 6. Beliefs about Reproductive Health : Young Russian Women Talking 7. Young People's Attitudes Towards Sex Roles and Sexuality 8. Love, Sex and Marriage: The Female Mirror (Value Orientations of Young Women in Russia) 9. Sexual Violence Towards Women Part III: Gender, Identity and Cultural Practice 10. Youth Culture in Russia: Gender, Consumption and Identity Formation 11. Young Women in Provincial Gang Culture: A Case Study of Ul'ianovsk 12. Farewell to the Tusovka; Masculinities and Femininities on the Moscow Youth Scene 13. The Body Encoded: Notes in the Folklore of Pregnancy
About the author
Hilary Pilkington
Summary
An exploration of the lives and expectations of young women in the new Russia, looking at the enormous changes that the new social and economic order have brought.
