Introduction:
The politics of equality and the Soviet model:
Sexual equality and Soviet policy: the problem
The concerns of this study
Conceptual and methodological limitations.

1. The woman question in prerevolutionary Russia: changing perceptions and changing realities:
Modernization and egalitarianism in Western Europe
The woman question and the emergence of Russian feminism
Russian radicalism and the liberation of women
The awkward sex: Marxism, Leninism, and the woman question
Bolshevism and feminism: the organization of women workers.

2. Toward sexual equality: revolutionary transformation and its limits, 1917-1930:
Legal engineering: the establishment of new norms
Political mobilization: the Zhenotdel and the party
Revolutionary strategies and elite perspectives
Sexual liberation and the family.

3. The Stalinist synthesis: economic mobilization and new patterns of authority:
Social production: female employment and industrialization
Domestic production: the role of the household in Soviet industrialization
Family policy and the redefinition of female roles
The Stalinist legacy and the reassessment of Stalinist priorities.

4. Enabling conditions of sexual equality: affirmative action, soviet-style:
The regulation of women's employment: equality through protection
The development of institutional child care
The expansion of educational opportunities
Sex-linked differences in educational orientations
Women in higher and professional education.

5. Women and work: changing economic roles:
Participation in the labor force
Sectoral patterns of employment
The vertical structures of occupations
The impact of occupational stratification on earnings
the social bases of occupational segregation.

6. Women and power: changing political roles:
Female participation in the Soviets and local government
Women in the Communist Party
Women in the political elite
The pattern of female political roles
The political marginality of women: two explanations.

7. Women and the family: changing attitudes and behavior:
Female liberation and family cohesion: contradictory imperatives in Soviet family policy
Current trends in family behavior: marriage, divorce, and reproduction
Family power structure and the sexual division of labor
The articulation of work and family roles: a structural analysis.

8. Sex roles and public policy: the spectrum of reassessments and proposals:
The recognition of contradictions in women's dual roles
Demographic problems and public policy: women as a reproductive resource
Labor utilization and public policy: women as a productive resource
Masculine/feminine: a tendency analysis of conflicting sex-role norms.

9. Sexual equality and Soviet policy: toward a comparative perspective.