Author: Marsh, Rosalind J.; editor & translator:
Title: Women in Russia and Ukraine
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (1996). orig.boards. 24x15xm, 350 pp.. Minor rubbing. A rubberstamp to reverse of title-page. VG. ¶ Contains 21 papers concerning Women in History: From the 17th to the 20th- Century; Women in the USSR and Post-Soviet Russia: Sexuality, Identity, Health and Reproduction; Women & Work; Includes: "Peter the Great's two weddings: changing images of women in a transitional age" [Lindsey Hughes];"Women in a warrior society: Don Cossack women 1860-1914" [Shane O'Rourke] ; "Teacups and coffins: the culture of Russian merchant women, 1850-1917" [ Catriona Kelly]; "Vera Figner and revolutionary autobiographies: the influence of gender on genre" [Hilde Hoogenboom]; "Equality and difference in women's history: where does Russia fit in?" [Linda Edmondson]; " Managing the female organism: doctors and the medicalization of women's paid work in Soviet Russia during the 1920s" [Janet Hyer]; "Innocence and sexuality in Soviet medical discourse" [Susan Gross Solomon]; "Abortion and women's health in Russia and the former Soviet Union" [Christopher Williams]; "The status of gays and lesbians in Russian-Soviet-Russian society" [James Riordan]; "Young women and subcultural lifestyles: a case of 'irrational needs'?" [Hilary Pilkington];" 'Fullfrontal': perestroika and sexual politics" [Elena Stishova]; Why be a shock worker or a Stakhanovite?" [Mary Buckley]; "Industrial working conditions and the political economy of female labour" [Donald Filtzer]; " 'Generals without armies, commanders without troops': Gorbachev's 'protection' of female workers" [Melanie Ilic]; "The return of the family farm: a future for women?" [Sue Bridger]; etc.

Keywords: Historical Sociology, Russia Federation, Communism, Communist Tsarist, Ukraine, Russian Women, Feminism, Feminist, History