Women in Russia and Ukraine

Abstract

1. Introduction: women's studies and women's issues in Russia, Ukraine and the postSoviet states Rosalind Marsh Part I. Women in History: From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth-Century: 2. Peter the Great's two weddings: changing images of women in a transitional age Lindsey Hughes 3. Women in a warrior society: Don Cossack women 1860-1914 Shane O'Rourke 4. Teacups and coffins: the culture of Russian merchant women, 1850-1917 Catriona Kelly 5. Vera Figner and revolutionary autobiographies: the influence of gender on genre Hilde Hoogenboom 6. Equality and difference in women's history: where does Russia fit in? Linda Edmondson Part II. Women in the USSR and Post-Soviet Russia: Sexuality, Identity, Health and Reproduction: 7. Managing the female organism: doctors and the medicalization of women's paid work in Soviet Russia during the 1920s Janet Hyer 8. Innocence and sexuality in Soviet medical discourse Susan Gross Solomon 9. Abortion and women's health in Russia and the former Soviet Union Christopher Williams 10. The status of gays and lesbians in Russian-Soviet-Russian society James Riordan 11. Young women and subcultural lifestyles: a case of 'irrational needs'? Hilary Pilkington 12. 'Fullfrontal': perestroika and sexual politics Elena Stishova Part III. Women and Work: 13. Why be a shock worker or a Stakhanovite? Mary Buckley 14. Industrial working conditions and the political economy of female labour Donald Filtzer 15. 'Generals without armies, commanders without troops': Gorbachev's 'protection' of female workers Melanie Ilic 16. The return of the family farm: a future for women? Sue Bridger 17. The post-Soviet woman in the move to the market: a return to domesticity and dependence Lynne Attwood Part IV. Feminism and Politics in Russia and Ukraine: 18. The 'woman question' and problems of maternity in post-communist Russia Elena Sargent 19. The Russian women's movement Rosalind March and Anastasiia Posadskaia 20. Feminism and post-communist Ukrainian society Solomea Pavlychko 21. Christian virgin or pagan goddess: feminism versus the eternally feminine in Ukraine Marian J. Rubchak.