'Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!' Late Soviet Perspective on Girls' Upbringing and the Female Self.
The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls' education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, i...
| Published in: | Gender & History Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 647 - 658 |
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