Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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.