THE MAN QUESTION.
Love and Sex of Three Generations in the Autobiographies of St. Petersburg Residents
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ISBN 978-5-94380-109-9
Series «Gender series » Num. 2
Year of publication 2011
390 p.
Format 140х205
Paperback
Weight 470 g.
The text is concerned with Soviet and post-Soviet Russian sexual and family life, from the post-war period to the public sexual revolution of the 1980's – 1990's. The study is based on autobiographies of love and sexuality, written by inhabitants of Leningrad – St. Petersburg. Rotkirch examines specificities of the Soviet family, which was characterized by relations of “expanded motherhood” and a weak expression of the man's role as (the only) breadwinner