Soviet People with Female Bodies : Performing Beauty and Maternity in Soviet Russia in the mid 1930-1960s

The everyday practices of maternity and beauty are important for the enactment of femininity. This dissertation deals with femininities created in the context of changing ideas about “normality” in Soviet Russia during the mid 1930s-1960s and explores a diversity of norms, discourses and rituals. Th...

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Main Author: Gradskova, Yulia
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Historiska institutionen 2007
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-6980
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