Pre-revolutionary Kabardino-Balkaria economically was extremely backward, agrarian territory, with feudal and patriarchal farm patterns. Like other peoples of the East, women here were powerless and oppressed in the family and society. They were without exception illiterate and economically dependent on men. Kalym, polygamy, marriage of minors — all this puts […]
Issue: 2017 No.4
In the last two decades the interest to the problem of peasant families and women’s roles in it (in regional studies) has increased; however, the topic of peasant women voluntarily leaving their families remains virtually unexplored. The peasantry was the bulwark of tradi-tional Russian culture. The reasons for filing a […]
Spichak А. V. The reasons for divorce of peasant ...
In the article the main stage of women’s education formation in the Tobolsk North (within the present borders of Khanty-Mansi and Yamal-Nenets autonomous regions) is considered since its inception at the turn of the 40—50s XIX c. until 1917. Two stages of its development are singled out, the chronological boundary […]
Tsys V. V., Tsys O. P. Women’s education ...
The article examines the general direction of some of Imam Shamil’s measures in the regulation of the family relations among mountaineers under the Caucasian War conditions. The analysis of the sources on the topic shows that the legislative activity of the Imam was due to several circumstances peculiar to the […]
Mutieva O. S. Regulation of the family relations among ...
The views of the populist/narodnik I. N. Kharlamov (1854—1887) on gender issues, presented in his essay “Woman in the Russian family” (1880), are discussed in the paper. The methodological foundations of I. N. Kharlamov’s approach to the designated problem are analyzed. Gender issue is disclosed through the confrontation of two […]
Kharitonov S. S. The gender issue in the system ...
The aim of this article is to study the role of women in the adaptation of the North Caucasian diaspora in modern France. The author collected field ethnographic materials in France (Paris and several other cities, Lyon) during 2015—2016. This article describes learning the French language by Caucasian women and […]
Babich I. L. The role of women in the ...
The article is devoted to the analysis of gender aspects of social service of religious or-ganizations in modern Russia and the world. A sufficient number of scientific publications is devoted to the subject of gender in Russian social policy and social work while social service of religious organizations is practically […]
Petrova I. E., Bekarev A. M., Pak G. ...
The article examines the issue of family and sexual violence in the republics of the North Caucasus. The republics of the North Caucasus are distinguished by the fact that here you can find a whole range of issues related to domestic violence and sexual assault, both common forms, and specific […]
Sirazhudinova S. V. “I can’t tell about it”: the ...
The paper considers social attitudes toward mothers with many children and single mothers. The following methods are used: system approach, comparative analysis, and socio-logical survey of the population of the Northwestern Federal District conducted by the Institute of Socio-Economic Development of Territories of RAS. The findings of the research help […]
Smoleva Е. О. Mothers with many children and single ...
For researchers a conservative wave that covered the field of Russian politics became an impulse for reflection about what the field (or space) of politics is and in which way the changing political context turn into metamorphoses in normative political regulations and influential political actors’ discourse. Recently metamorphoses in gender […]