Ioulia Gradskova: "An average" Soviet woman - a
review of descriptions of
identity. (Moscow:
Sputnik Publishing House, 1999, 158 pp.)
Now a new edition of the book is planned.
The
author of the book, Gradskova Ioulia, is a researcher of the Laboratory for a
development of
gender education of the Moscow State Lomonosov University,
dep. of Pedagogy. She invites the readers
to think together over the problem
of understanding of woman's identity in the soviet and postsoviet
space.
The publication is an attempt of the gender specific critical
review of the different tipes of the
descriptions of the phenomen of the
"Soviet woman".
Content
Introduction
The First Story or the
equal citizens of the different
sex
1.
Woman and political system of the
Soviet
State
2. Emancipation of woman
through work
3. Woman and family - from
"liberation" to the
"mother's duty"
The Second Story or "femininity"
as unspoken
differences
4. The secret of
the body and language
5. The secret of
reproduction
6. The secret of
survival
Conclussion
Notes
Literature
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