The Worlds of Russian Village Women : Tradition, Transgression, Compromise /

Show other versions (2)

Russian rural women have been depicted as victims of oppressive patriarchy, celebrated as symbols of inherent female strength, and extolled as the original source of a great world culture. Throughout the years of collectivization, industrialization, and World War II, women played major roles in the...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Olson, Laura J., 1962- (Author), Adonʹeva, S. B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rural women > Social conditions.
Folklore.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Population rurale.
Femmes.
Folklore > Russie.
Rural Population
Folklore
Women
Rural population.
Women.
Folklore > Russia.
Rural women > Russia > Social conditions.
Russia.
Russia
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Tradition, Transgression, Compromise
  • 1. Traditions of Patriarchy and the Missing Female Voice in Russian Folklore Scholarship
  • 2. Age and Gender Status and Identity : Structure and History
  • 3. Subjectivity and the Relational Self in Russian Village Women's Stories of Courtship and Marriage
  • 4. Pleasure, Power, and Nostalgia of Melodrama : Twentieth-Century Singing Traditions and Women's Identity Construction
  • 5. Transgression as Communicative Act : Rural Women's Chastushki
  • 6. Magical Forces and the Symbolic Resources of Motherhood
  • 7. Magic, Control, and Social Roles
  • 8. Constructing Identity in Stories of the Other World
  • 9. Death, the Dead, and Memory-Keepers
  • Conclusion.

Similar Items