Russian Peasant Women

Sommario

PART I: PEASANT WOMEN BEFORE THE REVOLUTION; 1. Introduction; 2. The Peasant Way of Life; 3. Temptress or Virgin? The Precarious Sexual Position of Women in Postemancipation Ukrainian Peasant Society; 4. Peasant Women and Their Work; 5. Razdel: The Peasant Family Divided; 6. The Litigious Daughter-in-Law: Family Relations in Rural Russia in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century; 7. Childbirth and Culture: Midwifery in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Countryside; 8. To Save Oneself: Russian Peasant Women and the Development of Women's Religious Communities in Prerevolutionary Russia; PART II: PEASANT WOMEN AFTER THE REVOLUTION; 9. Introduction; 10. Village Women Experience the Revolution; 11. Rural Women and the Law: Divorce and Property Rights in the 1920's; 12. Bab'i Bunty and Peasant Women's Protest During Collectivization; 13. Women in the Soviet Countryside on the Eve of World War II, 1935-40; 14. The Role of Women in Soviet Agriculture; 15. Soviet Rural Women: Employment and Family Life; 16. Rural Women and Glasnost

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Beatrice Viola Farnsworth, Professor of History Beatrice (Wells C Farnsworth
• Con la collaborazione di: Beatrice Farnsworth (Editore), Lynne Viola (Editore)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 02.04.1992
• EAN: 9780195066944
• ISBN: 978-0-19-506694-4
• Pagine: 320
• Serie: Oxford Medical Publications
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Analisi delle strutture sociali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia della cultura; Russia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Women, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Gender studies: women, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Gender studies: women and girls, Population & demography, Population and Demography, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era