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Peasant women and their work
world of the Russian peasant : post-emancipation culture and society • Boston • Published In 1990 • Pages: 45-63
By: Glickman, Rose L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This historical study investigates the complex roles of women in traditional Russian farming households and communities. Prior to the 1917 revolution land was transmitted indivisibly from father to son, or in the absence of sons, to other male relatives; women lacked rights to land, including homesteads and kitchen gardens. Nevertheless, the survival of households depended on the availability of sufficient female labor for performing all domestic tasks, including maintaining the hut, grinding grain, baking bread, making butter and cheese, preparing meals, and putting up preserves. In the field, women also performed a range of agricultural tasks including tending livestock, fertilizing, weeding, and mowing and stacking hay. Ironically, this gender-based division of labor continued largely intact into the twentieth century when the economy became industrialized: women continued to perform most domestic chores while also taking factory jobs to augment household income.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Income and demand
- Division of labor by gender
- Labor supply and employment
- Gender status
- Gender roles and issues
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Russians
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2019
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1880-1914
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Central Russia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Rose Glickman
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89022637
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Russia--Rural conditions