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- catalog abstract ""From the earliest years of the Soviet regime, deliberate transformation of the role of women in economic, political, and family life aimed at incorporating female mobilization into a larger strategy of national development. Addressing a neglected problem in the literature on modernization, the author brings an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the motivations, mechanisms, and consequences of the official Soviet commitment to female liberation, and its implications for the role of women in Soviet society today. She argues that Soviet policy was shaped less by the individualistic and libertarian concerns of nineteenth-century feminism or Marxism than by a strategy of modernization in which the transformation of women's roles was perceived by the Soviet leadership as the means of tapping a major economic and political resource. Bringing together the available data, the author analyzes the scope and limits of sexual equality in the Soviet system, and at the same time places the Soviet pattern in a broader historical and comparative perspective."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b535532.
- catalog coverage "Soviet Union Social conditions.".
- catalog created "c1978.".
- catalog date "1978".
- catalog date "c1978.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1978.".
- catalog description ""From the earliest years of the Soviet regime, deliberate transformation of the role of women in economic, political, and family life aimed at incorporating female mobilization into a larger strategy of national development. Addressing a neglected problem in the literature on modernization, the author brings an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the motivations, mechanisms, and consequences of the official Soviet commitment to female liberation, and its implications for the role of women in Soviet society today. She argues that Soviet policy was shaped less by the individualistic and libertarian concerns of nineteenth-century feminism or Marxism than by a strategy of modernization in which the transformation of women's roles was perceived by the Soviet leadership as the means of tapping a major economic and political resource. Bringing together the available data, the author analyzes the scope and limits of sexual equality in the Soviet system, and at the same time places the Soviet pattern in a broader historical and comparative perspective."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. The woman question in prerevolutionary Russia: changing perceptions and changing realities: -- Modernization and egalitarianism in Western Europe -- The woman question and the emergence of Russian feminism -- Russian radicalism and the liberation of women -- The awkward sex: Marxism, Leninism, and the woman question -- Bolshevism and feminism: the organization of women workers.".
- catalog description "2. Toward sexual equality: revolutionary transformation and its limits, 1917-1930: -- Legal engineering: the establishment of new norms -- Political mobilization: the Zhenotdel and the party -- Revolutionary strategies and elite perspectives -- Sexual liberation and the family.".
- catalog description "3. The Stalinist synthesis: economic mobilization and new patterns of authority: -- Social production: female employment and industrialization -- Domestic production: the role of the household in Soviet industrialization -- Family policy and the redefinition of female roles -- The Stalinist legacy and the reassessment of Stalinist priorities.".
- catalog description "4. Enabling conditions of sexual equality: affirmative action, soviet-style: -- The regulation of women's employment: equality through protection -- The development of institutional child care -- The expansion of educational opportunities -- Sex-linked differences in educational orientations -- Women in higher and professional education.".
- catalog description "5. Women and work: changing economic roles: -- Participation in the labor force -- Sectoral patterns of employment -- The vertical structures of occupations -- The impact of occupational stratification on earnings -- the social bases of occupational segregation.".
- catalog description "6. Women and power: changing political roles: -- Female participation in the Soviets and local government -- Women in the Communist Party -- Women in the political elite -- The pattern of female political roles -- The political marginality of women: two explanations.".
- catalog description "7. Women and the family: changing attitudes and behavior: -- Female liberation and family cohesion: contradictory imperatives in Soviet family policy -- Current trends in family behavior: marriage, divorce, and reproduction -- Family power structure and the sexual division of labor -- The articulation of work and family roles: a structural analysis.".
- catalog description "8. Sex roles and public policy: the spectrum of reassessments and proposals: -- The recognition of contradictions in women's dual roles -- Demographic problems and public policy: women as a reproductive resource -- Labor utilization and public policy: women as a productive resource -- Masculine/feminine: a tendency analysis of conflicting sex-role norms.".
- catalog description "9. Sexual equality and Soviet policy: toward a comparative perspective.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 347-361.".
- catalog description "Introduction: -- The politics of equality and the Soviet model: -- Sexual equality and Soviet policy: the problem -- The concerns of this study -- Conceptual and methodological limitations.".
- catalog extent "x, 381 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Women in Soviet society.".
- catalog identifier "0520028686 :".
- catalog identifier "0520039386 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Women in Soviet society.".
- catalog issued "1978".
- catalog issued "c1978.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog relation "Women in Soviet society.".
- catalog spatial "Soviet Union Social conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Soviet Union".
- catalog spatial "Soviet Union.".
- catalog subject "Children Institutional care Soviet Union.".
- catalog subject "Families Soviet Union.".
- catalog subject "Family policy Soviet Union.".
- catalog subject "Feminism Political aspects Soviet Union.".
- catalog subject "Feminism Soviet Union History.".
- catalog subject "HQ1663 .L33".
- catalog subject "Professional education of women Soviet Union.".
- catalog subject "Sex role in the work environment Soviet Union.".
- catalog subject "Sex role.".
- catalog subject "Sexual division of labor Soviet Union History.".
- catalog subject "Women Economic aspects Soviet Union.".
- catalog subject "Women Education (Higher) Soviet Union.".
- catalog subject "Women Education Soviet Union.".
- catalog subject "Women Employment Social aspects Soviet Union.".
- catalog subject "Women Employment Soviet Union.".
- catalog subject "Women Government policy Soviet Union.".
- catalog subject "Women Political activity Soviet Union.".
- catalog subject "Women Political aspects Soviet Union.".
- catalog subject "Women Soviet Union Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Women's rights Soviet Union.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The woman question in prerevolutionary Russia: changing perceptions and changing realities: -- Modernization and egalitarianism in Western Europe -- The woman question and the emergence of Russian feminism -- Russian radicalism and the liberation of women -- The awkward sex: Marxism, Leninism, and the woman question -- Bolshevism and feminism: the organization of women workers.".
- catalog tableOfContents "2. Toward sexual equality: revolutionary transformation and its limits, 1917-1930: -- Legal engineering: the establishment of new norms -- Political mobilization: the Zhenotdel and the party -- Revolutionary strategies and elite perspectives -- Sexual liberation and the family.".
- catalog tableOfContents "3. The Stalinist synthesis: economic mobilization and new patterns of authority: -- Social production: female employment and industrialization -- Domestic production: the role of the household in Soviet industrialization -- Family policy and the redefinition of female roles -- The Stalinist legacy and the reassessment of Stalinist priorities.".
- catalog tableOfContents "4. Enabling conditions of sexual equality: affirmative action, soviet-style: -- The regulation of women's employment: equality through protection -- The development of institutional child care -- The expansion of educational opportunities -- Sex-linked differences in educational orientations -- Women in higher and professional education.".
- catalog tableOfContents "5. Women and work: changing economic roles: -- Participation in the labor force -- Sectoral patterns of employment -- The vertical structures of occupations -- The impact of occupational stratification on earnings -- the social bases of occupational segregation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "6. Women and power: changing political roles: -- Female participation in the Soviets and local government -- Women in the Communist Party -- Women in the political elite -- The pattern of female political roles -- The political marginality of women: two explanations.".
- catalog tableOfContents "7. Women and the family: changing attitudes and behavior: -- Female liberation and family cohesion: contradictory imperatives in Soviet family policy -- Current trends in family behavior: marriage, divorce, and reproduction -- Family power structure and the sexual division of labor -- The articulation of work and family roles: a structural analysis.".
- catalog tableOfContents "8. Sex roles and public policy: the spectrum of reassessments and proposals: -- The recognition of contradictions in women's dual roles -- Demographic problems and public policy: women as a reproductive resource -- Labor utilization and public policy: women as a productive resource -- Masculine/feminine: a tendency analysis of conflicting sex-role norms.".
- catalog tableOfContents "9. Sexual equality and Soviet policy: toward a comparative perspective.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: -- The politics of equality and the Soviet model: -- Sexual equality and Soviet policy: the problem -- The concerns of this study -- Conceptual and methodological limitations.".
- catalog title "Women in Soviet society : equality, development, and social change / Gail Warshofsky Lapidus.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".