Russia's Women

by Clements, Barbara Evans; Engel, Barbara Alpern; Worobec, Christine D.; Worobec, Christine D.

• ISBN13: 9780520070240
• ISBN10: 0520070240
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

By ignoring gender issues, historians have failed to understand how efforts to control women--and women's reactions to these efforts--have shaped political and social institutions and thus influenced the course of Russian and Soviet history. These original essays challenge a host of traditional assumptions by integrating women into the Russian past. Using recent advances in the study of gender, the family, class, and the status of women, the authors examine various roles of Russian women and offer a broad overview of a vibrant and growing field.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Barbara Evans

Clements Accommodation and Resistance

Women in the Medieval Russian Family of the Tenth through the Fifteenth Centuries

Childbirth in Pre-Petrine Russia: Canon Law and Popular Traditions

Women's Honor in Early Modern Russia

Through the Prism of Witchcraft: Gender and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century Muscovy

Widows and the Russian Serf Community

Infant-Care Cultures in the Russian Empire

Transformation versus Tradition

The Peasant Woman as Healer

Women's Domestic Industries in Moscow Province, 1880-1900

Abortion and the Civic Order: The Legal and Medical Debates

The Impact of World War I on Russian Women's Lives

The Female Form in Soviet Political Iconography, 1917-32

Waters Women, Abortion, and the State, 1917-36

Later Developments: Trends in Soviet Women's History, 1930 to the Present

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