And they lived happily ever after : norms and everyday practices of family and parenthood in Russia and Central Europe / [edited by] Helene Carlbäck, Yulia Gradskova and Zhanna Kravchenko.

Date:
2012
  • Books
  • Online

About this work

Publication/Creation

Budapest, Hungary ; New York, NY : Central European University Press, 2012.

Physical description

ix, 326 pages : Grayscale Illustration, Tables ; 24 cm

Notes

Published in 2012 by Central European University Press.
Printed in Hungary by Prime Rate Kft., Budapest.
Some papers were presented at the conference "Family, Marriage and Parenthood in Eastern Europe, Russia and Sweden" held September 2008 in Sweden.

Contents

1940s-1980s The Family as A "Basic Unit of Socialist Society" -- 1990s-2000s Social Transformation in The Mirror of Family Life.
Lone Motherhood in Soviet Russia in the Mid-20th Century-In a European Context -- Family, Divorce, and Comrades' Courts: Soviet Family and Public Organizations During the Thaw -- A Life of Labor, a Life of Love: Telling the Life of a Young Peasant Mother Facing Collectivization -- East German Women Going West: Family, Children and Partners in Life-Experience Literature -- Why Does Public Policy Implementation Fail? Lithuanian Office of State Benefits for Mothers of Large Families and Single Mothers, 1944-1956 -- The Latvian Family Experience with Sovietization 1945-1990 -- "Two children Puts You in the Zone of Social Misery:" Childbearing and Risk Perception among Russian Women -- "Supporting Genuine Development of the Child:" Public Childcare Centers Versus Family in Post-Soviet Russia -- Everyday Continuity and Change: Family and Family Policy in Russia -- Single Mothers-Clients or Citizens? Social Work with Poor Families in Russia -- Welfare Crisis and Crisis Centers in Russia Today -- Marriage and Divorce Law in Russia and the Baltic States: Overview of Recent Changes -- Doing Parenting in Post-Socialist Estonia and Latvia -- Gendered Experiences in Entrepreneurship, Family and Social Activities in Russia.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])

Type/Technique

Languages

Permanent link

Identifiers

ISBN

  • 9786155053573
  • 9786155053597