TY - BOOK ID - 137099562 TI - Gender and housing in Soviet Russia : private life in a public space PY - 2010 SN - 1847797652 1781701768 1847792634 PB - Manchester : Manchester University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Housing KW - Women KW - Sex role KW - Social conditions. KW - Geschichte KW - Sowjetunion KW - Soviet history. KW - Soviet housing. KW - domestic life. KW - domestic space. KW - gender relations. KW - history of housing. KW - home life. KW - housing policy. KW - housing shortage. KW - socialism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137099562 AB - This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policies on housing, and the meaning and experience of 'home' for Soviet citizens. She examines the use of housing to alter gender relations, and the ways in which domestic space was differentially experienced by men and women. Much of Attwood's material comes from Soviet magazines and journals, which enables her to demonstrate how official ideas on housing and daily life changed during the course of the ER -