The Changing Status of Women (Edexcel A-Level History): Flashcards
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The 'double shift'
The 'double shift'
Paid work outside + unpaid domestic labour at home
Marx: which inequality was fundamental?
Marx: which inequality was fundamental?
Class inequality
Lenin on capitalism & sexual inequality
Lenin on capitalism & sexual inequality
Capitalism eliminates it via economic efficiency
1937 Worker & Kolkhoz Woman statue figures
1937 Worker & Kolkhoz Woman statue figures
Male factory worker (hammer) & female farm worker (sickle)
Women in propaganda 1917-40
Women in propaganda 1917-40
Supporting roles, mothers, children
Eisenstein's October (1928) & female soldiers
Eisenstein's October (1928) & female soldiers
Mocked them for fighting against Bolsheviks
First woman in space, 1963
First woman in space, 1963
Valentina Tereshkova
Pronatal campaign goal
Pronatal campaign goal
Encourage higher birth rates
Late 1970s propaganda: working mothers blamed for
Late 1970s propaganda: working mothers blamed for
Delinquency, crime, drugs, alcoholism, family breakdown
Soviet women: official vs reality
Soviet women: official vs reality
Officially equal, reality continued discrimination