Voronina M. Woman-dwellers of Kharkiv Gubernia Towns: Gender Discrimination and Dynamics (1861-1917)

The object of study - woman-dwellers of Kharkiv Gubernia Towns. The purpose of study is the study of gender discrimination and dynamics in this sphere in 1861-1917 in Ukraine on an example of Kharkiv Gubernia. The methods used in the research are: gender approach, problem-chronological, historical-comparative, historical-genetic, retrospective, statistical, system. The practical value of the dissertation. The material of the dissertation can be used for special source "Woman-dwellers of Kharkiv Gubernia Towns: Gender Discrimination and Dynamics (1861-1917)", in special sources on a history of feminism, " women studies ", social feminology, gender researches etc. The dissertation is dedicated to the research of the history of the woman-dwellers of Kharkiv gubernia towns in the period of the feminism first wave in Russia empire space (1861-1917). The main attention of the work is to point out to the description of the majority of the life and business spheres among the women from all Slobozhanschina social groups excluding country-women. There has been also ascertained the level of women gender discrimination by power, which was represented by government men only, and the processes of its overcoming, the dynamics of changes due to the women education on all the levels, getting a job, social mobility, motherhood and childhood social security, legal status in the family and in the society. There has been shown special role of the emancipated Kharkiv public in the solving of "women's question" many aspects in the bounds of the gubernia and even the country.