L’ambigüité des modèles d’égalité des genres en Russie : famille, droit et idéologie

Soviet family law had originally privileged the future by trying to realize a total gender equality which would parallel gender equality in the labor world. But the realization of this equalitarian model which was supposing, in the Engelsian ideology, the transfer of the exercise of family functions...

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Main Author: Chantal Kourilsky-Augeven
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Language:fra
Published: L’Harmattan 2015-04-01
Series:Droit et Cultures
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/droitcultures/3555
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description Soviet family law had originally privileged the future by trying to realize a total gender equality which would parallel gender equality in the labor world. But the realization of this equalitarian model which was supposing, in the Engelsian ideology, the transfer of the exercise of family functions to society, encountered considerable material difficulties. In order to ensure the victory of ideology, the initial equalitarian model was therefore modified by the creation of «motherhood as a social function» presented as a prestigious one. This initial deformation was afterwards to be accentuated by becoming the basis of a progressive redefinition of family functions – reproduction, education, material support – as «naturally» being the women’s tasks. At the same time, regardless of social reality, the equality ideology was proclaimed as already realized. The equality principle since the Eltsinian Constitution of 1993 together with the newly adopted Family Code of 1995 was proclaiming for the first time that it protected not only motherhood and childhood but also fatherhood. It was thus solving the contradictions of a «mother-centered model» predominant even among the feminists who were denouncing men’s irresponsibility by contrast to women’s overloading tasks but were glorifying the Mother in her exclusive family responsibilities. Twenty years later, we observe in 2013 a still more serious denial of social reality by the Putinian ideology. Wishing to oppose Russian values to Western values considered as a degeneracy factor, it defines a new objective consisting of a «return» to Russian traditional family values inspired by the Orthodox Church. But still one year later, in 2014, the Russian Ministry of Labor, who has been working on a concrete social reality, gives a new formulation to a real demographic policy which respects the 1993 Constitution excluding ideological obedience.
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spelling doaj.art-09ffb40a6cc54a87968f539fbbe9afe82022-12-21T18:43:58ZfraL’HarmattanDroit et Cultures0247-97882109-94212015-04-0169127153L’ambigüité des modèles d’égalité des genres en Russie : famille, droit et idéologieChantal Kourilsky-AugevenSoviet family law had originally privileged the future by trying to realize a total gender equality which would parallel gender equality in the labor world. But the realization of this equalitarian model which was supposing, in the Engelsian ideology, the transfer of the exercise of family functions to society, encountered considerable material difficulties. In order to ensure the victory of ideology, the initial equalitarian model was therefore modified by the creation of «motherhood as a social function» presented as a prestigious one. This initial deformation was afterwards to be accentuated by becoming the basis of a progressive redefinition of family functions – reproduction, education, material support – as «naturally» being the women’s tasks. At the same time, regardless of social reality, the equality ideology was proclaimed as already realized. The equality principle since the Eltsinian Constitution of 1993 together with the newly adopted Family Code of 1995 was proclaiming for the first time that it protected not only motherhood and childhood but also fatherhood. It was thus solving the contradictions of a «mother-centered model» predominant even among the feminists who were denouncing men’s irresponsibility by contrast to women’s overloading tasks but were glorifying the Mother in her exclusive family responsibilities. Twenty years later, we observe in 2013 a still more serious denial of social reality by the Putinian ideology. Wishing to oppose Russian values to Western values considered as a degeneracy factor, it defines a new objective consisting of a «return» to Russian traditional family values inspired by the Orthodox Church. But still one year later, in 2014, the Russian Ministry of Labor, who has been working on a concrete social reality, gives a new formulation to a real demographic policy which respects the 1993 Constitution excluding ideological obedience.http://journals.openedition.org/droitcultures/3555EqualityFamilyGenderIdeologyLawRussia
spellingShingle Chantal Kourilsky-Augeven
L’ambigüité des modèles d’égalité des genres en Russie : famille, droit et idéologie
Droit et Cultures
Equality
Family
Gender
Ideology
Law
Russia
title L’ambigüité des modèles d’égalité des genres en Russie : famille, droit et idéologie
title_full L’ambigüité des modèles d’égalité des genres en Russie : famille, droit et idéologie
title_fullStr L’ambigüité des modèles d’égalité des genres en Russie : famille, droit et idéologie
title_full_unstemmed L’ambigüité des modèles d’égalité des genres en Russie : famille, droit et idéologie
title_short L’ambigüité des modèles d’égalité des genres en Russie : famille, droit et idéologie
title_sort l ambiguite des modeles d egalite des genres en russie famille droit et ideologie
topic Equality
Family
Gender
Ideology
Law
Russia
url http://journals.openedition.org/droitcultures/3555
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