Gender, Generation and Identity in Contemporary Russia
This book explores the lives and expectations of young women in the new Russia, looking at the enormous changes that the new social and economic environment have brought. The contributors, most of whom are Russian, focus a wide range of topic, including: the sex industry, women's view of marriage and child-rearing, provincial gang-culture and its links with organized crime, the impact of the market, drugs and Westernization on the Moscow youth-scene and gay and lesbian identities The...
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This book explores the lives and expectations of young women in the new Russia, looking at the enormous changes that the new social and economic environment have brought. The contributors, most of whom are Russian, focus a wide range of topic, including: the sex industry, women's view of marriage and child-rearing, provincial gang-culture and its links with organized crime, the impact of the market, drugs and Westernization on the Moscow youth-scene and gay and lesbian identities The contributors draw on the growing literature on gender and generation in the West which has arisen as the result of the recognition that the experience of youth is classed, raced and gendered and that the experience of gender is mediated by class, race, ethnicity, sexuality and age. They consider the role of the media, state and social institutions in shaping opportunities and experiences in the post-Soviet environment.
List of figures and tablesList if contributorsAcknowledgements1Introduction12Gender and generation in the new Russian labour market213Employment strategies and the formation of new identities in the service sector in Moscow394Women's career patterns in industry: a generational comparison575Orientations, re-orientations or disorientations? Expectations of the future among Russian school-leavers756Young people, sex and sexual identity957Love, sex and marriage - the female mirror: value orientations of young women in Russia1218Young people's attitudes towards sex roles and sexuality1329Beliefs about reproductive health: young Russian women talking15210Sexual violence towards women16911'Youth culture' in contemporary Russia: gender, consumption and identity18912Young women in provincial gang culture: a case study of Ul'ianovsk[s.n.]13Farewell to the tusovka: masculinities and femininities on the Moscow youth scene23714The body encoded: notes on the folklore of pregnancy264Bibliography282Index296
