“I Don`t Want to Get Married, I Want to Study”: to the Sociology of Everyday Life

The paper examines everyday practices associated with female gender socialization and specific aspects of women's social life in Russia during the first decades of the 20th century. The study is based on materials of the journal “Rabotnitsa” (The Female Worker) from the 1910s to 1920s. It explores the formation of women's worldviews, changing perspectives on women's education, the development of beauty standards, and the emergence of new behavioral models. The paper demonstrates how socio-economic transformations influenced the lifestyles, thought patterns, and appearances of women in the early 20th century, a time when mass industrialization and urbanization processes were taking place simultaneously. The authors propose a well-founded hypothesis about the changes in the concept of the “Rabotnitsa” journal compared to the late 19th century, when the journal existed in a completely different social paradigm. The conclusions of the study address what remained essential in a woman's life despite revolutionary upheavals and the new way of life. In the 1920s, women were no longer seen as helpless, weak creatures, dependent on men. The image of a modest, delicate, weak woman was left in the past. The new image of a woman encompassed such qualities as strength, independence, and freedom. The journal articles illustrate how new gender stereotypes, norms of behavior, and patterns of communication between men and women gradually formed.