The Worlds of Russian Village Women : Tradition, Transgression, Compromise /
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...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Madison, Wisconsin :
The University of Wisconsin Press,
[2012]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.