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Code: 030189
Osipov, A.G
Etnichnost` i Ravenstvo v Rossii
Osobennosti Vospriiatiia
[ Ethnicity and equality in Russia : Peculiarities of perception ]
Moscow: Tsentr "Sova", 2012
Language: Russian

Price: $ 9.00

This monograph analyzes the issue of ethnic inequality and protection of minorities in Russia. Bibliography (0.265 kg.)

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Code: 025760
Stasevich, I.V
Sotsial`nyi Status Zhenshchiny u Kazakhov
Traditsii i Sovremennost`
[ Social status of women among the Kazakhs : Traditions and modernity ]
St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2011
Language: Russian

Price: $ 32.00

This monograph studies the social status of women among the Kazakhs from a historical perspective. The author analyzes the change in the context of the transformation of the nation from a nomadic style of life to the settled one, as well as of other cultural, economic and social changes.

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Code: 027077
Ni Zakona, ni Spravedlivosti
Nasilie v Otnoshenii Zhenshchin v Rossii
[ Neither law nor justice : Violence towards women in Russia ]
Moscow: Eslan, 2010
Language: Russian

Price: $ 21.00

This is a report of the national Independent Commission on Women’s Rights. It describes the main violations of women’s rights in Russia: domestic violence, sexual violence, trafficking, and crimes against women as a part of national traditions.

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Code: 013123
Zhenskaia Optina
Materialy k Letopisi Boriso-Glebskogo Zhenskogo Anosina Monastyria
[ The Women`s hermitage : Materials toward a chronicle of the Boriso-Glebovskii women`s Anasin monastery ]
Moscow: Palomnik, 1997
Language: Russian

Price: $ 45.00

The Boriso-Glebovskii Monastery was founded by abbess Evgeniia (princess E.N. Meshcherskaia (1774-1837)) in 1823 near Moscow. The book includes biographical materials about the six abbesses of the monastery, anthems, sermons, etc.

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Code: 009676-07
Litsa
Biograficheskii Al`manakh: 7
[ Faces: Biographical almanac: 7 : Biograficheskii Al`manakh: 7 ]
Moscow-St. Petersburg: Feniks-Athenium, 1996
Language: Russian

Price: $ 39.00

This almanac includes biographical materials on the women writers A. Damanskaia, A. Mar, N. Sanzhar`, and L. Stolitsa. Others covered include A. Belyi, A. Blok, Ivanov, Razumnik, M. Voloshin, A. Akhmatova, and K.

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Code: 026843
Bol`shakova, O.V
Istoriia Rossii v Gendernom Izmerenii
Sovremennaia Zarubezhnaia Istoriografiia: Analiticheskii Obzor
[ History of Russia in a gender dimension : Contemporary foreign historiography: Analytical survey ]
Moscow: INION RAN, 2010
Language: Russian

Price: $ 10.00

Analytical survey of contemporary foreign historiography on the gender issues in Russia. It covers a wide spectrum of issues, including: periodization of gender history in Russia in the 10th-20th centuries; transformation of ideals of femininity and masculinity; evolution of family models; women’s religiosity and spiritual life; property rights of women, etc.

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Code: 007919
Azov, A.V
Problemy Teoreticheskogo Modelirovaniia Samosoznaniia Khudozhnika v Izgnanii
Russkaia Emigratsiia "Pervoi Volny"
[ The Problem of the theoretical simulation of selfconciousness of an artist in exile : Russian emigration of the "first wave" ]
Iaroslavl`: Iaroslavl`skii Gos. Pedagogicheskii Un-t, 1996
Language: Russian

Price: $ 18.00

This monograph studies the self-reflection of the artist-?migr? in the existential situation of "bogostavlennosti" [God forsaken]. The author interprets this feeling in Jewish hermeneutics, the mystical teaching of Kabbalah.

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Code: 019648-13
Kazankov, A.A., Ksenofontova N.A
Muzhchina i Zhenshchina
Sbornik Statei: Kn. 3: Poisk Identichnosti
[ Men and women : Collected articles: Book 3: The search for identity ]
Moscow: Institut Afriki RAN, 2011
Language: Russian

Price: $ 21.00

The first chapter, Gender and Primitive Society, includes comparative studies in mythology and linguistics; the second chapter, War of Genders, or Gaining Identity, studies the mentality and life models of men and women in various historical epochs.

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Code: 004154
Potolok Pola
Sbornik Nauchnykh i Publitsisticheskikh Statei
[ The Limits of gender : Sbornik Nauchnykh i Publitsisticheskikh Statei ]
Novosibirsk: Novosibirskii Gosudarstvennyi Universitet, 1998
Language: Russian

Price: $ 21.00

This collection discusses a relatively new problem for the Russian social sciences: sexism. Some of the articles were written for an essay contest at Novosibirsk University on the subject of gender stereotypes in Russia.

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Code: 010148
Pushkareva, N
Zhenshchiny Rossii i Evropy na Poroge Novogo Vremeni

[ Women of Russia and Europe on the edge of a new time : ]
Moscow: Institut Etnologii i Antropologii im. Miklukho-Maklaia RAN, 1996
Language: Russian

Price: $ 17.00

This book studies the history of women in Russia and Western Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, their role in family and society, rights, education, marriage and divorce. Includes bibliographic references.

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Code: 011995
Gordeeva, Valeriia
Rasstrel Cherez Poveshen`e
Nevydumannyi Roman v Chetyrekh Povestiakh o Liubvi, Predatel`stve, Smerti, Napisannyi Blagodaria KGB
[ Shooting by hanging : A Real story in four parts about love, betrayal, and death, written "thanks" to the KGB ]
Moscow: Konstanta, 1995
Language: Russian

Price: $ 18.00

Documentary novels about four women who were repressed during Stalin`s rule.

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