Gender in Russian history and culture / edited by Linda Edmondson
2001, First Edition. London : Palgrave Macmillan UK. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #416548
ISBN: 0333720784
Physical description; xviii, 223 pages ; 23 cm. Series; Studies in Russian and East European history and society. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 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 UlfMøller -- 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. Subjects; Russia—History. Europe, Eastern—History. Sociology. History, Modern. European literature. Russian, Soviet, and East European History. Gender Studies. Women Russia. Women Soviet Union. Sex role Russia History. Sex role Soviet Union. Russia Social conditions. Soviet Union Social conditions. Russia (Federation) Civilization.
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