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Nlo video russia3/26/2023 ![]() No explanation was offered to understand whether there was something wrong with the women of my generation or with the world we lived in, given that our mothers led a quite different lifestyle. ![]() Part of the confusion that arose stemmed from the fact that none of these changes in the family were being publicly articulated. On the other hand, by the time I was 30, I had met many female peers whose life trajectories did not fulfil these expectations. ![]() Otherwise a woman should be prepared to deal with the stigma imposed by the institutions of the family, medicine, and mass media. On the one hand, by this age women in that part of the world are expected to “settle down” – to find a male partner and to become a mother. In 2005, just before I turned 30, I found myself well-established in my career (by that time I had worked as a journalist for a decade): single, childless, bored and anxious. Influenced by the economic turbulence of the transition period, the spread of contraception and the media stream that brought in Western cultural norms, the population began putting off marriage, choosing to cohabit or to live alone, and having children outside of wedlock. In an in-depth study of the transition from state socialism to market Utrata finds that one of the most significant implications of this social upheaval in Russia is the growth of single motherhood.Īs a Belarusian graduate student ten years ago, I started my own research project that aims to explore the experiences of single women living in post-Soviet Belarus and Russia. ![]() In Women without Men: Single Mothers and Family Change in the New Russia”(Cornell University Press, 2015) Jennifer Utrata addresses the transformation of intimacy in the post-Communist era. Last year saw the publication of a book that I had been waiting to read for a decade. student at the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London (UK). ![]()
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