Duelling, the Russian Cultural Imagination, and Masculinity in Crisis
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Duelling, the Russian Cultural Imagination, and Masculinity in Crisis

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eBook - ePub

Duelling, the Russian Cultural Imagination, and Masculinity in Crisis

About this book

This book, written from a feminist perspective, uses the focus of duelling to discuss the nature of masculinity in Russia. It traces the development of duelling and masculinity historically from the time of Peter the Great onwards, considers how duelling and masculinity have been represented in both literature and film and assesses the high emphasis given in Soviet times to gender equality, arguing that this was a failed experiment that ran counter to Russian tradition. It examines how duelling continues to be a feature of life in contemporary Russia and relates the situation in Russia to wider scholarship on the nature of masculinity more generally. Overall, the book contends that Russia's valuing of a strong, militaristic form of masculinity is a major problem.

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Yes, you can access Duelling, the Russian Cultural Imagination, and Masculinity in Crisis by Amanda DiGioia in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Gender Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9781000203721
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Foreword
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction: ‘I demand satisfaction’
  11. 1 ‘A real muzhik’: toxic masculinity, duelling, and Russia
  12. 2 Gory, heinous, and crude: duelling in Russia from Peter the Great onwards
  13. 3 A gendered reading of canonical texts: toxic masculinity, Turgenev, and the Russian duel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
  14. 4 ‘Cry on the inside’: analysis of The Duelist
  15. 5 ‘If it’s hostile, you kill it’: duelling in the Metro series
  16. 6 Conclusion: toxic masculinity re-loaded
  17. Index