No More Heroines?: Russia, Women and the Market

by Susan Bridger, Rebecca Kay, Kathryn Pinnick, et al.

With the collapse of Soviet rule and the emergence of independent Russia, the image of Russian women in the Western imagination has changed dramatically. The robust tractor drivers and athletes have been replaced by glamorous but vulnerable beauty queens or the dishevelled and downcast women trading goods on the streets.
The authors of this work take a closer look at what lies behind the above images and how Russian women are coping with a very...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415124603
• ISBN13: 9780415124607
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"