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The paper deals with the construction of age in the magazine “Rabotnitsa” during the Soviet time. In social context age is especially significant for women, because it has an impact on their lives more than on men’s lives; that is why a magazine for women is under scrutiny in this […]

Smirnova V. Iu. Construction of age in the magazine ...



The article proposes traditional and gender models of sex-role socializa-tion in education and the criteria for their analysis. Differentiated by gender, the goals, forms, methods and techniques of training and education are identified as essential diagnostic criteria of the applied model. Regulatory documents of the Russian education fixate purposes of […]

Kluchko O. I. Models of sex-role socialization in Russian ...


Regional differences in the children’s perception of new lives after their parents’ divorce are revealed. Reduction of interaction with their fathers is typi-cal of children from single-parent families living in Nizhniy Novgorod; that pro-cess is proportionate to the increase of family separation time. It certainly is a negative consequence of […]

Ermilova A. V. The perception of children’s life after ...




The article is devoted to the analysis of middle and senior age business-women’s socio-economic characteristics in modern Russian society, including: specific motives of becoming entrepreneurs and conducting business after getting retired, interrelations in business-sphere and so on. This kind of research seems relevant taking into consideration a number of factors: […]

Kolobova A. E. Middle and senior age businesswomen: traits ...


The paper examines the set of research problems in contemporary Rus-sian Gender Studies in Political Sciences, the current status and perspectives of developing this research field in Russia. The authors dwell upon gender methodology in Political Sciences and an-alyze main Russian scholars’ research areas in the field: gender in political […]

Riabova T. B., Ovcharova O. G. Gender Studies ...


Based on archival materials, the article considers the problems of wom-en’s employment in Karelia in the 1950s, pinpoints the causes of the multitude of non-working women, describes the ways and methods used to involve them in public production. It is noted that the party organizations regarded the public employment issue […]

Vavulinskaya L. I. The problem of female employment in ...



The article, based on the analysis of the fundamental scientific work of the famous Russian ethnographer S. I. Rudenko “The Bashkirs. A case of ethnological monograph” (the second part was published in 1925), considers the status of women in traditional Bashkir society. Shown are the attitude of S. I. Rudenko […]

Suleimanova R. N. “She is reasonably well positioned…”: ...


This article covers the myth which was formed in the first half of the XIX c. around Nadezhda Durova, the first Russian amazon. To analyse Durova’s biography and Russian society’s attitude towards sex-gender mismatch. J. Butler’s construct of gender trouble is being used. This methodology examines Durova’s and Alexandrov’s social […]

Boyarinova P. A. Nadezhda Durova: phenomenon of gender trouble ...


This article examines the practice of female genital mutilation in the Re-public of Dagestan. The secrecy of this issue requires empirical analysis. We aimed to review the data of empirical research in the Republic of Dagestan. The results of the study allow to reveal the problem of the existence of […]

Sirazhudinova S. V. Female genital mutilation in the Republic ...



The article is devoted to the analysis of gender regimes in welfare states from the angle of alarmist fatherhood discourse, which appeared in the 80s. Gender regime is a set of rules and norms which create stable expectations re-garding gender relations and assign specific rights and responsibilities to men and […]

Lipasova A. N. Fatherhood in gender regimes of the ...


One of the most actual problems in modern society is social orphanhood. This research refers to studies of the abandonments and neglect of children in Russia. In Russia the quantity of the newborn abandonment grows every year and makes 0,3—0,4 % of all newborn. The purpose of the article is […]

Samokhina K. I. The abandonments and neglect of children: ...