Kiselev Alexander G.,
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Chief Researcher, Ob-Ugric Institute of Applied Research and Development (Khanty-Mansiysk). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Moldanova Nadezhda A.,
Researcher, Ob-Ugric Institute of Applied Research and Development (Khanty-Mansiysk). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Motives of Femininity in the Soviet Female Discourse of the 1930th years (Based on the Materials of the Newspapers “Pravda”, “Omskaya pravda”, “Ostyako-vogulskaya pravda”, “Krasnyi sever”)
DOI:10.31518/2618-9100-2018-1-15
The article deals with the motives of femininity in the Soviet party press of the 1930s. On the materials of the party newspapers the article shows the construction of the images of a new woman, an extrovert hard-working woman (a toiler, active citizen, public activist, and mother). The Soviet woman acts as the creator of new social order; she finds her personal fulfillment beyond her personal life – in the public sphere. This fact is the cause of the tendency to masculinization, the displacement of female traits and femininity. However, these traits of femininity do not disappear, and, probably, they cannot disappear altogether. They are reflected on the pages of newspapers, sometimes occasionally or even deliberately (if it had to do with the the images of an oppressed woman of the West), causing interest and sympathy of the readers. Their presence allows speaking not only about the "masculine", but also about the "feminine" in a woman, about the femininity inherent in the Soviet socio-cultural reality of the 1930s, about femininity as the theme of the Soviet women's discourse.
How to cite: Kiselev A.G., Moldanova N.G. Motives of Femininity in the Soviet Female Discourse of the 1930th Years (Based on the Materials of the Newspapers “Pravda”, “Omskaya pravda”, “Ostyako-vogulskaya pravda”, “Krasnyi sever”)// Historical Courier. 2018. № 1. URL: http://istkurier.ru/data/2018/ISTKURIER-2018-1-15.pdf
Links: Issue 1 2018
Keywords: femininity; the image of women; gender; Soviet discourse; party ideology; periodicals