Shpakovskaya L. L. Cohabitation: marriage strategies of urban middle class young representatives pp.3-16


The article deals with the analysis of gender arrangements of contemporary Russian cohabitations. Using the interviews collected in the frames of an empirical research in St Pe￾tersburg, the author reconstructs the phenomenology of «civil marriage» in a milieu of young urban middle class people, identifies the meanings of «civil marriage» in the everyday consciousness, interpretes the changes in the organization of intimacy and family life which are
typical for contemporary Russian urban society.read in PDF>>>