Russia's Women Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation |
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| Editor:
| Clements, Barbara Evans
Engel, Barbara Alpern
Worobec, Christine D. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-520-07024-0 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1991 |
| Publisher: | University of California Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $52.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionBy 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.