Women and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union

Bibliographic Data

ID19920089
AuthorsEdmondson Linda, C Kelly (0000-0002-0339-2690), Charlotte Rosenthal, Mary Schaeffer Conroy, Barbara T Norton, Richard Abraham, Marina Ledkovsky, Elizabeth Waters, Sue Bridger, Mary Buckley
EditorsLinda Edmondson
Year1992
Publication date1992-08-20
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueWomen and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511520877
OpenAlexW4299800174
Open LibraryOL1550751M
ISBN9780511520877
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Until the late 1960s, most Western scholars studying the history, culture, social and political life and economy of Russia and the Soviet Union, paid scant attention to the participation and experience of women. The multifarious ways in which gender roles and perceptions of gender were influenced by and in turn influenced the heterogeneous cultures of the Soviet empire were largely ignored. However, this neglect has slowly been rectified and now the study of women and gender relations has become one of the most productive fields of research into Russian and Soviet society. This volume demonstrates the originality and diversity of this recent research. Written by leading Western scholars, it spans the last decade of tsarist Russia, the 1917 revolutions and the Soviet period. The essays reflect the interdisciplinary nature of women's work, women and politics, women as soldiers, female prostitution, popular images of women and women's experience of perestroika

Diversity (politics) · Economic history · Empire · Neglect · Period (music) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Soviet union · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Women