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Author Lapidus, Gail Warshofsky.

Title Women in Soviet society : equality, development, and social change / Gail Warshofsky Lapidus
Published Berkeley [etc.] ; London : University of California Press, 1978

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Description x, 381 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Includes index
Summary "From the earliest years of the Soviet regime, deliberate transformation of the role of women in economic, political, and family life aimed at incorporating female mobilization into a larger strategy of national development. Addressing a neglected problem in the literature on modernization, the author brings an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the motivations, mechanisms, and consequences of the official Soviet commitment to female liberation, and its implications for the role of women in Soviet society today. She argues that Soviet policy was shaped less by the individualistic and libertarian concerns of nineteenth-century feminism or Marxism than by a strategy of modernization in which the transformation of women's roles was perceived by the Soviet leadership as the means of tapping a major economic and political resource. Bringing together the available data, the author analyzes the scope and limits of sexual equality in the Soviet system, and at the same time places the Soviet pattern in a broader historical and comparative perspective."--Jacket
Analysis Sex role
Women Soviet Union Social conditions
Women's rights Soviet Union
Soviet Union Society Role of women 1917-1977
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 347-361
Subject Sex role.
Women and socialism -- Soviet Union.
Women -- Russia -- Social conditions.
Women -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions.
Women -- Soviet Union.
Women's rights -- Soviet Union.
LC no. 74016710
ISBN 0520028686