Russian peasant women / edited by Beatrice Farnsworth, Lynne Viola.

Bringing together recent scholarship on the lives of Russian peasant women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this pioneering work of social history covers such topics as family life in the countryside, woman's work, her sexuality, her marital and family positions, her experience of the...

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Other Authors: Farnsworth, Beatrice, Viola, Lynne
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
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Table of Contents:
  • Peasant way of life / Mary Matossian
  • Temptress or virgin? the precarious sexual position of women in postemancipation Ukrainian peasant society / Christine D. Worobec
  • Peasant women and their work / Rose L. Glickman
  • Razdel : the peasant family divided / Cathy A. Firerson
  • Litigious daughter-in-law : family relations in rural Russia in the second half of the Nineteenth Century / Beatrice Farnsworth
  • Childbirth and culture: Midwifery in the nineteenth-century Russian countryside / Samuel C. Ramer
  • To save oneself : Russian peasant women and the development of women's religious communities in prerevolutionary Russia / Brenda Meehan-Waters
  • Village women experience the revolution / Beatrice Farnsworth
  • Rural women and the law: Divorce and property rights in the 1920s / Beatrice Farnsworth
  • Bab'i bunty and peasant women's protest during collectivization / Lynne Viola
  • Women in the Soviet countryside on the eve of World War II, 1935-1940 / Roberta T. Manning
  • Role of women in Soviet agriculture / Norton D. Doge and Murray Feshbach
  • Soviet rural women : Employment and family life / Susan Bridger
  • Rural women and Glasnost / Susan Bridger.