Russia's Women: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation.
Женщины России: приспособление, сопротивление, трансформация
1993-12-01
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Russian women's historySoviet political iconographygender and social changewomen's domestic industrieswomen's reproductive health
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Introduction, Barbara Evans Clements Accommodation and Resistance, Christine D. Worobec Women in the Medieval Russian Family of the Tenth through the Fifteenth Centuries, N.L. Pushkareva Childbirth in Pre-Petrine Russia: Canon Law and Popular Traditions, Eve Levin Women's Honor in Early Modern Russia, Nancy Shields Kollmann Through the Prism of Witchcraft: Gender and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century Muscovy, Valerie A. Kivelson Widows and the Russian Serf Community, Rodney D. Bohac Infant-Care Cultures in the Russian Empire, David L. Ransel Transformation versus Tradition, Barbara Alpern Engel The Peasant Woman as Healer, Rose L. Glickman Women's Domestic Industries in Moscow Province, 1880-1900, Judith Pallot Abortion and the Civic Order: The Legal and Medical Debates, Laura Engelstein The Impact of World War I on Russian Women's Lives, Alfred G. Meyer The Female Form in Soviet Political Iconography, 1917-32, Elizabeth Waters Women, Abortion, and the State, 1917-36, Wendy Goldman Later Developments: Trends in Soviet Women's History, 1930 to the Present, Barbara Evans Clements
Key Findings
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Several chapters analyze conflicts between tradition and modernization, including abortion debates, legal and medical regulation, and changing civic expectations.
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Studies trace women’s roles from medieval and early modern family, childbirth, honor, witchcraft, and widowhood to serf-community life.
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The collection highlights women’s economic and social agency through infant care, healing practices, and domestic industries in the Russian Empire.
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The volume examines Russian women’s experiences through three recurring processes: accommodation, resistance, and transformation.
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The volume examines how revolution, World War I, and Soviet political institutions reshaped women’s lives, representation, reproductive rights, and state relations.
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Women in Russia from the medieval period through the Soviet era
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Women’s accommodation, resistance, and transformation across family life, childbirth, honor, witchcraft, widowhood, childcare, healing, domestic industry, abortion, war, and political representation
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