Russian peasant women / [electronic resource] edited by Beatrice Farnsworth, Lynne Viola.

Includes bibliographical references.

Peasant way of life-- Temptress or virgin? the precarious sexual position of women in postemancipation Ukrainian peasant society -- Peasant women and their work -- Razdel : the peasant family divided -- Litigious daughter-in-law : family relations in rural Russia in the second half of the Nineteenth Century -- Childbirth and culture -- To save oneself : Russian peasant women and the development of women's religious communities in prerevolutionary Russia -- Village women experience the revolution -- Rural women and the law -- Bab'i bunty and peasant women's protest during collectivization -- Women in the Soviet countryside on the eve of World War II, 1935-1940 -- Role of women in Soviet agriculture -- Soviet rural women -- Rural women and glasnost.