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"Village Mothers describes the reception of modern medical ideas and practices by three generations of Russian and Tatar village women in the twentieth century. It first traces the entry of Western medical discourse on reproduction into Russia and its extension to the countryside during the Soviet period. Using the village mothers' own words, as captured in 100 oral interviews collected by the author and his collaborators in the early 1990s, David L.
Ransel shows how the women mediated the inherited beliefs of their families and communities, the claims of the state to control reproduction, and their personal desires for a better life. The interviews tell of willing acceptance of some changes and selective acceptance of or outright resistance to others. The women interviewed were subject to powerful forces beyond their control, ranging from patriarchal tyranny to civil war, governmental coercion and violence, famine, and world war.
Their testimonies, however, reveal the strategies by which they maintained a measure of personal control and choice that enabled them to build a sense of independence, endure hardship, and give meaning to their lives. The scope of these personal histories and the detailed information they convey about everyday life in rural Soviet communities provide an important and fascinating portrait of socio-cultural continuity and transformation in twentieth-century Russia."--BOOK JACKET.
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Subjects
History, Interviews, Mothers, Social conditions, Motherhood, Maternal Welfare, Child Welfare, Ethnology, Rural Health, Women's Health Services, Organization & administration, Mères, Entretiens, Histoire, Conditions sociales, 15.70 history of Europe, Interview, Mutter, Soziale Stellung, Dorpen, Moeders, Russia (federation), social conditionsPlaces
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Village Mothers: Three Generations of Change in Russia And Tataria (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)
August 2005, Indiana University Press
Paperback
in English
0253218209 9780253218209
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Village Mothers: Three Generations of Change in Russia and Tataria (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)
January 2001, Indiana University Press
Hardcover
in English
0253338255 9780253338259
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Village mothers: three generations of change in Russia and Tataria
2000, Indiana University Press
in English
0253338255 9780253338259
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-306) and index.
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