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Women and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union
Author(s): Linda Edmondson
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: July 31, 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 244 pages
- ISBN-10: 0521070724
- ISBN-13: 9780521070720
Book Description
In recent years, the study of women and gender relations has become one of the most productive fields of research into Russian and Soviet society and this volume offers a fresh and interdisciplinary insight into the field. Written by leading Western scholars, it spans the last decade of tsarist Russia, the 1917 revolutions and the Soviet period. The essays reflect the original nature of recent research on women’s studies and include chapters on women writers, women’s work, women and politics, women as soldiers, female prostitution, popular images of women and women’s experience of perestroika.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“…the volume contains much that is topical, valuable, interesting, and well written….” A. H. Koblitz, Choice
“As Edmondson notes in the introduction, one of the aims of this collection is to stimulate further research, and along with providing much-needed information and analysis itself, the volume does provide an impetus for future scholars. Finally, many of these essays will be useful in the classroom, and all will be of interest to those who want to know more about the history of women in Russia and the former USSR.” Jehanne Gheith, Russian Review
Book Description
This volume offers an interdisciplinary insight into the study of women and gender relations in Russian and Soviet society.
