Creating the New Soviet Woman: Women's Magazines as Engineers of Female Identity, 1922-53

Contents: The 1920s: The Women's Magazines in the Era of the New Economic Policy Work versus Family Marriage, Divorce and Unwanted Pregnancy The Promotion of New Gender Relations Beauty, Fashion and Femininity Variations in the 'New Woman' The Stalin Era Women's Experience of Industrialisation and Collectivisation Overfulfilling the Plan Home Life Compulsory Motherhood: The 1936 Abortion Law Gender Confusion in the Stalin Era: 'Completely New People', or Traditional Wives and Mothers? Women in the Great Patriotic War The Postwar Era