Soviet Women: Walking the Tightrope

Gender stereotypes, fragile families, sexual frigidity and limited knowledge or use of birth control are rampant in the U.S.S.R., where women are expected to have both full-time jobs and large families. According to PW , ``Gray's series of sharply focused, brilliantly incisive vignettes add up to a remarkably revealing, often surprising profile of Soviet women under glasnost .'' (June)