«Жену с почину берут?» Устыдительные наказания девушек в традиционной женской культуре XIX века
«The wife is taken for a start?» Disgracing punishments for girls in traditional Russian culture of the XIX century

Summary/Abstract: The most obvious inequality between men and women in Russian traditional culture can be seen in the systematic discrimination and subordination of unmarried girls and mar-ried women in practices of disgracing (shaming or opprobrious) punishments for them. Shame was the most painful emotion in the Russian culture that had solid ties with its other special features as communitarianism, Orthodox basis etc. Comparing the documents of dif-ferent Russian regions, one can expertise the practices of using shame as punishment, show-ing how ethnic culture, class (especially peasants), and gender intersected and helped to de-termine the experiences of those who were either recipients of punishment (women), or who determined the nature of punishment in the country (in the 19th c. — men only). There is analysis of who becomes a target of punishment and how gender, ethnic culture and class shape the views and objectives of administrators and the perceived suitability of certain in-terventions

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