2012/11/02 by Irina Kosterina
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Social Sciences · #Gender, Feminism, and Media #Rural development and sustainability #Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
paper · doi:10.1080/09668136.2012.717360
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This essay explores the experiences of recently married young women living in rural Russia in the village of Karsun in the Ul’yanovsk Oblast’. It analyses the connections between women in rural communities looking at social networks and the power relations inherent within them. The ways in which forms of power among and between women (as well as between women and men) impact on young women's agency are critically appraised through an analysis of what this essay terms forms of ‘women's power’. The essay also shows how women's discussions of their experiences reflect the problems that the perceived physical and emotional absences of men present for younger married women and their attempts to develop forms of autonomy.