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

Laura J. Olson and S. B. Adonyeva
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Cover
  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page vii)
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Note on Transliteration and Translation (page xiii)
  • Introduction: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise (page 3)
  • 1. Traditions of Patriarchy and the Missing Female Voice in Russian Folklore Scholarship (page 23)
  • 2. Age and Gender Status and Identity: Structure and History (page 44)
  • 3. Subjectivity and the Relational Self in Russian Village Women's Stories of Courtship and Marriage (page 92)
  • 4. The Pleasure, Power, and Nostalgia of Melodrama: Twentieth-Century Singing Traditions and Women's Identity Construction (page 130)
  • 5. Transgression as Communicative Act: Rural Women's Chastushki (page 166)
  • 6. Magical Forces and the Symbolic Resources of Motherhood (page 195)
  • 7. Magic, Control, and Social Roles (page 221)
  • 8. Constructing Identity in Stories of the Other World (page 255)
  • 9. Death, the Dead, and Memory-Keepers (page 277)
  • Conclusion (page 306)
  • Glossary (page 317)
  • Notes (page 321)
  • References (page 333)
  • Index (page 353)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
SR 73.1 (Spring 2014): 229-230 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5612/slavicreview.73.1.0229
JAF 128.508 (Spring 2015): 230-231 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/579883
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Published: c2012
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780299290337 (ebook)
  • 9780299290344 (paper)
Subject
  • Folklore
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