The article analyzes the level of involvement of female residents of Stalingrad/Volgograd in public activities during the Khrushchev Thaw of the 1950—1960s. Using comparative historical and biographical methods, empathically delving into the content of sources of personal origin, including oral history, the authors compared expected and actual factors of women’s […]
Keywords: Stalingrad/Volgograd
The use of several research strategies (comparative historical method, methods of gender anthropology, calling for more attention to female informants and empathy, identifying social dampeners that ensured the mitigation of contradictions and disproportions), several kinds and types of sources (journal publications, medical brochures, women’s ego documents and oral female histories […]