Russia's Women

Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation

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

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9780520910195
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Eastern European History
• Index: History

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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
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

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• ILLUSTRATIONS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND DATES
• Introduction: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation
• Accommodation and Resistance
• Women in the Medieval Russian Family of the Tenth through 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
• Women, Abortion, and the State, 1917-36
• GLOSSARY
• RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER READING
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX