Russian Peasant Women / Edition 1

by Beatrice Farnsworth, Lynne Viola

Overview

An overview of the forces - economic, social, and ideological - that shaped and transformed Russian peasant society, especially the position of women in it, from the early 19th century to the present.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195066944
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/02/1992
Series:	Oxford Medical Publications]
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.13(w) x 9.19(h) x 0.95(d)
Lexile:	1670L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

Traditional Approaches to HamletPart I: Peasant Women Before the RevolutionIntroduction1. The Peasant Way of Life, Mary Matossian2. Temptress or Virgin? The Precarious Sexual Position of Women in Postemancipation Ukrainian Peasant Society, Christine D. Worobec3. Peasant Women and Their Work, Rose L. Glickman4. Razdel: The Peasant Family Divided, Cathy A. Frierson5. The Litigious Daughter-in-Law: Family Relations in Rural Russia in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century, Beatrice Farnsworth6. Childbirth and Culture: Midwifery in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Countryside, Samuel C. Ramer7. To Save Oneself: Russian Peasant Women and the Development of Women's Religious Communities in Prerevolutionary Russia, Brenda Meehan-WatersPart II: Peasant Women After the RevolutionIntroduction8. Village Women Experience the Revolution, Beatrice Farnsworth9. Rural Women and the Law: Divorce and Property Rights in the 1920's, Beatrice Farnsworth10. Bab'i Bunty and Peasant Women's Protest During Collectivization, Lynne Viola11. Women in the Soviet Countryside on the Eve of World War II, 1935-40, Roberta T. Manning12. The Role of Women in Soviet Agriculture, Norton D. Dodge and Murray Feshbach13. Soviet Rural Women: Employment and Family Life, Susan Bridger14. Rural Women and Glasnost, Susan Bridger