LEADER 02969nam 2200469 450 001 9910821514103321 005 20230125234104.0 010 $a0-253-03013-7 035 $a(CKB)4340000000206436 035 $a(OCoLC)1005606562 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse59756 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5087792 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000206436 100 $a20171030h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRussian peasant women who refused to marry $espasovite old believers in the eigthteenth and nineteenth centuries /$fJohn Bushnell 210 1$aBloomington, Indiana :$cIndiana University Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (1 PDF (339 pages) :)$cmaps 300 $aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. 311 $a0-253-02996-1 311 $a0-253-02965-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : what is the opposite of eureka? -- 1. The moral economy of Russian serf marriage, 1580s-1750s : serf marriage unregulated -- 2. Nobles discover peasant women's marriage aversion -- 3. The outer limits of female marriage aversion : Kuplia Parish in the eighteenth century -- 4. Kuplia Parish, 1830-50 : demographic crisis and the resumption of marriage -- 5. Spasovites : the covenant of despair -- 6. Baki : resistance to marriage on a forest frontier -- 7. Steksovo and Sergei Mikhailovich Golitsyn : marriage aversion in a context of prosperity -- Inconclusion. 330 $aJohn Bushnell's analysis of previously unstudied church records and provincial archives reveals surprising marriage patterns in Russian peasant villages in the 18th and 19th centuries. For some villages the rate of unmarried women reached as high as 70 percent. The religious group most closely identified with female peasant marriage aversion was the Old Believer Spasovite covenant, and Bushnell argues that some of these women might have had more agency in the decision to marry than more common peasant tradition ordinarily allowed. Bushnell explores the cataclysmic social and economic impacts these decisions had on the villages, sometimes dragging entire households into poverty and ultimate dissolution. In this act of defiance, this group of socially, politically, and economically subordinated peasants went beyond traditional acts of resistance and reaction. 606 $aMarriage$xReligious aspects$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWomen peasants$zRussia$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aMarriage$xReligious aspects$xHistory 615 0$aWomen peasants$xHistory 676 $a306.85 700 $aBushnell$b John$01165892 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821514103321 996 $aRussian peasant women who refused to marry$94036482 997 $aUNINA