The worlds of Russian village women : tradition, transgression, compromise /

Olson, Laura J., 1962-

The worlds of Russian village women : tradition, transgression, compromise / Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva. - Madison, Wis. : The University of Wisconsin Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xiii, 368 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographies and index.

Traditions of Patriarchy and the Missing Female Voice in Russian Folklore Scholarship -- Age and Gender Status and Identity: Structure and History -- Subjectivity and the Relational Self in Russian Village Women's Stories of Courtship and Marriage -- Pleasure, Power, and Nostalgia of Melodrama: Twentieth-Century Singing Traditions and Women's Identity Construction -- Transgression as Communicative Act: Rural Women's Chastushki -- Magical Forces and the Symbolic Resources of Motherhood -- Magic, Control, and Social Roles -- Constructing Identity in Stories of the Other World -- Death, the Dead, and Memory-Keepers.



9780299290337 9781283991018


Rural women--Social conditions.--Russia
Folklore--Russia.
Women.
Rural population.
Women
Folklore
Rural Population


Electronic Books.

HQ1662 / .W675 2012