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Незарегистрированные союзы: брачные стратегии молодых представителей городского среднего класса
Cohabitation: marriage strategies of urban middle class young representatives

Author(s): L. L. Shpakovskaya
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Ивановский государственный университет
Keywords: partnership; marriage; family; urban middle class; gender division of labor; transformations of the gender order; interviews

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the analysis of gender arrangements of contemporary Russian cohabitations. Using the interviews collected in the frames of an empirical research in St Petersburg, the author reconstructs the phenomenology of «civil marriage» in a milieu of young urban middle class people, identifies the meanings of «civil marriage» in the everyday consciousness, interpretes the changes in the organization of intimacy and family life which are typical for contemporary Russian urban society.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 3-16
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian