Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. ILLUSTRATIONS VII
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX
5. NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND DATES XI
6. Introduction: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation 1
7. PART ONE. Traditional Society
8. Accommodation and Resistance 17
9. Women in the Medieval Russian Family of the Tenth through Fifteenth Centuries 29
10. Childbirth in Pre-Petrine Russia: Canon Law and Popular Traditions 44
11. Women's Honor in Early Modern Russia 60
12. Through the Prism of Witchcraft: Gender and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century Muscovy 74
13. Widows and the Russian Serf Community 95
14. Infant-Care Cultures in the Russian Empire 113
15. PART TWO. Transforming Tradition
16. Transformation versus Tradition 135
17. The Peasant Woman as Healer 148
18. Women's Domestic Industries in Moscow Province, 1880-1900 163
19. Abortion and the Civic Order: The Legal and Medical Debates 185
20. The Impact of World War I on Russian Women's Lives 208
21. The Female Form in Soviet Political Iconography, 1917-32 225
22. Women, Abortion, and the State, 1917-36 243
23. Later Developments: Trends in Soviet Women's History, 1930 to the Present 267
24. GLOSSARY 279
25. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER READING 283
26. CONTRIBUTORS 291
27. INDEX 293