Issue: 2012 No.4






The article deals with the modernization processes that took place in the Muslim commu￾nities of the Middle Volga in the first third of the 20th century. Based on previously unpublished archival material, the transformation of social and gender status of Muslim women is analyzed. In the conclusion the extent nature, […]

Guseva Yu. N. The struggle for a woman: Tatar-Muslim religious ...


This paper deals with the place and the role of the widow as a part of the history of peasant women’ everyday life in Central Russia in the pre-reform and post-reform era. Par￾ticular attention is paid to historical and ethnographic data collected by the informants of the Ethnographic Bureau of […]

Mukhina Z. Z. The widow in Russian peasant community: traditions ...


The article presents the results of the research of development of pedagogical views on school students’ sexual distinctions in Russian education of XVIII — the beginning of the XXI century. Four stages and tendencies of pedagogical views’ changes concerning a gender in pedagogics are analyzed, development prospects are defined.read in […]

Shtylyova L. V. Determinants, stages and tendencies of «gender question» ...



The article based on the analysis of Soviet movies and film criticism of the «long fif￾ties» is devoted to investigating the ways in which the films exploited gender discourse to produce Otherness. Cinematic representations of the American masculinity served as a weapon of the Cold War. Masculinity of the Enemy […]

Riabov O. V. «Mr. John Lancaster Peck»: American masculinity in ...


In this article specific of virtual identity’s building is analyzed, terms of virtual gender identity and its forms are identified. Both phenomena are verified through the analysis of ways of adolescents’ virtual gender identity building in the social network web-site «Vkontakte». This study has revealed a socially desirable pattern of […]

Shchekoturov A. V. Construction of adolescents’ virtual gender identity in ...


In the article health-related gender differences caused by medical, socio-cultural and indi￾vidual variables: lifestyle, ideology, attitudes, social roles and stereotypes are considered. Gender differences in the sphere of mental health are also analyzed; the conclusion about the importance of the differential approach to the social policy in consideration of gender […]

Sud’in S. А. Gender aspects in the sociology of medicine ...



Article is based on the empirical data of the longitudinal research of living conditions, time use and daily activity of the rural population (1975—2005), which was conducted by the Institute of Economics and IE of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science in the Novosi￾birsk region (headed by […]

Novochatskaya O. V. Rural women: work and leisure pp.15-23


The modification of Russian army’s structure, aimed at creating a professional con￾tract-based army, led to a large number of women deciding to join the Army. This fact changed the gender composition of the military society, but according to the traditional view army service is seen as an attribute of masculinity; […]

Surkova I. Y. Strategy of women integration into Armed forces: ...