Gender in Russian History and Culture (Studies in Russian & Eastern European History)

This book charts the changing aspects of gender in Russia's cultural and social history from the late 17th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The essays, while focusing on women as a primary subject, highlight the construction of both femininity and masculinity in a culture that has undergone major transformation and disruptions over the period of three centuries. Machine generated contents note: 1 Educating Tat'yana: Manners, Motherhood and Moral Education (Vospitanie), 1760-1840 Catriona Kelly 2 Gender and Salvation: Representations of Difference in Old Believer Writings from the Late Seventeenth Century to the 1820s Irina Korovushkina Paert 3 'A Crocodile in Flannel or a Dancing Monkey': the Image of the Russian Woman Writer, 1790-1850 Joe Andrew 4 Mariya Vernadskaya: Missionary of 'Scientific Femininity' Arja Rosenholm 5 'Belles-lettres with a Touch of Filth': On the Contemporary Reception of Leonid Andreev's Stories, 'The Abyss' and 'In the Fog' Peter UlfM0ller 6 Unruly Identities: Soviet Psychiatry Confronts the 'Female Homosexual' of the 1920s Dan Healey 7 Biding Their Time: Women Workers and the Regulation of Hours of Employment in the 1920s Melanie Ilic 8 Rationality versus Romanticism: Representations of Women in the Stalinist Press Lynne Attwood 9 Complex 'Realities' of 'New' Women of the 1930s: Assertive, Superior, Belittled and Beaten Mary Buckley 10 The Heirs of Pasha: the Rise and Fall of the Soviet Woman Tractor Driver Sue Bridger Index. 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.