Post-Soviet Women
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Map -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Victims and agents: gender in post-Soviet states -- Gender and transition to what? -- Victims or agents of power? -- Generalisation and difference -- Chapter breakdown and organisation -- Conclusion -- PART I: WOMEN IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION -- Economy -- 2. Do Russian women want to work? -- Does unemployment have a 'female face'? -- Women and work -- Will women be forced out of work in the future? -- Conclusion -- 3. Rural women and the impact of economic change -- Market reforms and agricultural reorganisation -- The new peasant farmers: 'masters' of the land? -- Women on the former state and collective farms -- Unemployment and poverty: a female problem -- The private plots: is the future female? -- 4. Women and the culture of entrepreneurship -- Introduction -- The picture from above: imposing a tradition of market and capitalism in Russia -- The picture from below: women invent a tradition of proto entrepreneurialism -- Za dushoi (for the soul): or the de-contamination of capitalism -- Dividing lines: survival or livelihood? -- Conclusion -- Society -- 5. Images of an ideal woman: perceptions of Russian womanhood through the media, education and women's own eyes -- Public images for political ideals -- The essential woman -- Beauty not brains -- Girls should be girls -- 'The better half of humanity' -- 'Guardians of the family hearth' -- Finding one's 'other half -- Motherhood: every woman's highest calling? -- To work or not to work? -- Mass-produced matryoshki or individual women? -- 6. 'She was asking for it': rape and domestic violence against women -- The historical background: rape, male violence and gender differentiation in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia -- Russian writings on rape
