Feminist Nightmares: Women At Odds, 1994, p.242
1994
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- Titel
- THE BURDEN OF MYTHIC IDENTITY: RUSSIAN WOMEN AT ODDS WITH THEMSELVES
- Ist Teil von
- Feminist Nightmares: Women At Odds, 1994, p.242
- Ort / Verlag
- NYU Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 1994
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- The fetish of female powerlessness and suffering was the symbolic centerpiece of the elaborate marriage ritual of prerevolutionary peasant Russia. A young woman’s poignant passage from the freedom of girlhood to the enslavement of marriage formed a pivotal image around which the entire wedding complex revolved. Above all, Russian wedding rituals stressed the inexorability of female destiny and the inevitability of female suffering and travail. One of the most notable aspects of Russian wedding rituals was the extensive lamentation of the bride. Through the singing (or wailing) of these laments, brides marked the pathos of their imminent separation from relatives
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 0814726208, 9780814726204Titel-ID: cdi_jstor_books_j_ctt9qg70x_16
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- –
- Schlagworte
- Anthropology, Behavioral economics, Behavioral sciences, Buying behavior, Children, Consumer behavior, Ethnography, Ethnology, Feminism, Gender equality, Gender identity, Gender politics, Gender roles, Gender studies, Human populations, Men, Mothers, Perestroika, Persons, Political change, Political processes, Political reform, Political science, Politics, Population studies, Russian culture, Russian studies, Shopping, Social sciences, Women, Working women