| Description |
xi, 300 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-290) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : accommodation, resistance, transformation / Barbara Evans Clements -- Accommodation and resistance / Christine D. Worobec -- Women in the medieval Russian family of the tenth through 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. |
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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. |
| Subject |
Women -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Women. |
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Soviet Union. |
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History. |
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Women -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Clements, Barbara Evans, 1945-
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Engel, Barbara Alpern.
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Worobec, Christine D.
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| ISBN |
0520070232 alkaline paper |
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0520070240 paperback alkaline paper |
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