FETUS EXPULSION AND CONTRACEPTION IN THE TRADITIONAL PEASANT CULTURE OF THE EUROPEAN PART OF RUSSIA (SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY THROUGH 1930S)
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FETUS EXPULSION AND CONTRACEPTION IN THE TRADITIONAL PEASANT CULTURE OF THE EUROPEAN PART OF RUSSIA (SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY THROUGH 1930S)
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S0869-54150000402-5-1
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147-160
Abstract
The article discusses the issues of abortion and contraception as they stood in the everyday life ofa Russian peasant woman in the stated period, despite the existing offi cial ban on the subject. Variousmeans used for the prevention and termination of pregnancy are described. The author shows that,following a short spell of freedom that a woman had in the abortion issue, her rights in this issue wouldbe gradually restricted again. Yet none of the measures taken, including the ban on abortion in 1936,led to the offi cially projected birth-rate growth.
Keywords
peasant woman, abortion, contraception, ethnography of the family, gender roles, gender studies in ethnology
Date of publication
01.05.2012
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Glickman 1992 – Glickman R.L. Peasant Women and their Work // Russian Peasant Women /Ed. B. Farnsworth, L. Viola. N.Y.; Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992.
Ransel 1978 – Ransel D.L. Abandonment and Fosterage of Unwanted Children: The women of the Foundling System // The Family in Imperial Russia / Ed. D.L. Ransel. Urbana: Univ. Illinois Press, 1978. P. 189–2

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