Gender in Russian History and Culture

L. Edmondson

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2001
• Print ISBN: 9780333720783
• eBook ISBN: 9780230518926
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Eastern European History
• Index: History

This volume charts the changing aspects of gender in Russia's cultural and social history from the late seventeenth century to the Stalinist era and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The works, while focusing on women as a primary subject, highlight in particular gender difference, the construction of both femininity and masculinity in a culture that has undergone major transformation and disruptions over the period of three centuries.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Notes on the Contributors
• Editor’s Introduction
• 1 Educating Tat’yana: Manners, Motherhood and Moral Education (Vospitanie), 1760–1840
• 2 Gender and Salvation: Representations of Difference in Old Believer Writings from the Late Seventeenth Century to the 1820s
• 3 ‘A Crocodile in Flannel or a Dancing Monkey’: the Image of the Russian Woman Writer, 1790–1850
• 4 Mariya Vernadskaya: Missionary of ‘Scientific Femininity’
• 5 ‘Belles-lettres with a Touch of Filth’: On the Contemporary Reception of Leonid Andreev’s Stories, ‘The Abyss’ and ‘In the Fog’
• 6 Unruly Identities: Soviet Psychiatry Confronts the ‘Female Homosexual’ of the 1920s
• 7 Biding Their Time: Women Workers and the Regulation of Hours of Employment in the 1920s
• 8 Rationality versus Romanticism: Representations of Women in the Stalinist Press
• 9 Complex ‘Realities’ of ‘New’ Women of the l930s: Assertive, Superior, Belittled and Beaten
• 10 The Heirs of Pasha: the Rise and Fall of the Soviet Woman Tractor Driver
• Index