S. BRIDGER Researcher and writerD. A. FIELD Assistant Professor and Chair of the History Department, Adrian College, Michigan, USAD. FILTZER Professor of Russian History, University of East LondonJ. HAYNES Lecturer in Film Studies, University of EssexM. LILJESTRÖM Professor of Women's Studies, University of Turku, FinlandI. PAERT Lecturer in European History, University of Wales, Bangor, WalesM. POHL Lecturer, Vassar College, New York, USAK. ROTH-EY Researcher

'This collection vividly illustrates these fortunes in 11 well integrated chapters that offer a fascinating introduction to the subject'. - Dan Healey, European History Quarterly 'These eleven tightly argued chapters go a considerable way to remedy the neglect of both women's experience and the gendered nature of Khrushchev's rule. It is an admirably coherent collection which should encourage further research.' - Jane McDermid, The Slavonic and East European Review

• Introduction; M.Ilic Women Workers in the Khrushchev Era: An Overview; M.Ilic Women Workers in the Khrushchev Period; D.Filtzer Women and Girls in the Virgin Lands; M.Pohl 'Loose Girls' on the Loose: Sex, Propaganda and the 1957 Youth Festival; K.Roth-Ey Mothers and Fathers and the Problems of Selfishness in the Khrushchev Period; D.Ann Field Reconstruction or Reproduction?: Mothers and the Great Soviet Family in Cinema after Stalin; J.Haynes Monitored Selves: Soviet Women's Autobiographical Texts in the Khrushchev Era; M.Liljeström Women in the Home; S.E.Reid Housing and the Home in the Khrushchev Era; L.Attwood Demystifying the Heavens: Women, Religion and Khrushchev's Anti-Religious Campaign, 1954-64; I.Paert The Cold War and the Cosmos: Valentina Tereshkova and the First Woman's Space Flight; S.Bridger Bibliography Index