Attwood Lynne. Creating the New Soviet Woman Women’s Magazines as Engineers of Female Identity, 1922-53

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. — 221 p. — ISBN10: 031222544X; ISBN13: 978-0312225445 — (Studies in Russian & Eastern European History)The "new soviet person" the Bolsheviks were committed to creating was to be a creature willing and eager to subordinate his or her own interests to those of society. Both men and women would play a full role in the construction of socialism, but the model of the "new women" had an additional feature--she also had to reproduce the population. This book explores the ways in which the "new woman," in her various incarnations, was presented to female citizens of the 1920s to the end of the Stalin era in the pages of popular women's magazines, Rabotnitsa (The Woman Worker) and Krest'yanka (The Peasant Woman).The 1920s: The Women’s Magazines in the Era of the New Economic PolicyWork versus Family
Marriage, Divorce and Unwanted Pregnancy
The Promotion of New Gender Relations
Beauty, Fashion and Femininity
Variations in the ‘New Woman’The Stalin EraWomen’s Experience of Industrialisation and Collectivisation
Overfulfilling the Plan
Home Life 1
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