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Women and Russian Culture

Author : Rosalind Marsh
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789205921
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Women and Russian Culture written by Rosalind Marsh and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of women in Russian culture has undergone profound changes: from the origins of modern Russian literature in the eighteenth century until the Revolution of 1917, when women were a source of fascination for Russian writers, to the socialist realism period, during which public discussion of the representation of women in literature rapidly declined and the "woman question" was declared to have been "resolved," to a reappraisal of the position of women since the 1980s. This collection of essays by leading western and Russian specialists contains new insights and updates previous research into the role of women in Russian culture in the last two centuries and contributes to two exciting and growing research areas: the feminist critique of work by Russian male authors and the study of Russian women writers. Moreover, whereas most previous studies have concentrated on the aesthetic qualities of works by women writers, this collection includes both close textual analysis and the discussion of biographical, historical, and political questions relating both to the representation of women and women's culture. The aim is not to present aunified manifesto, but rather to bring together a spectrum of approaches and positions within their common focus on the relationship between women and culture in Russia. Contributors: R. Marsh, A. Barker, J. Andrew, D. Greene, I. Kazakova, C. Schuler, S. Graham, K. Hodgson, N. Kolchevska, N. Cornwell, J. Curtis, M. Katz, M. Ledkovsky, P.I. Barta, A. Darmodekhina, D. Gillespie, N. Zhuravkina, B. Lanin, S. Carsten, A. Tait

Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700-1825

Author : W. Rosslyn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230589901
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700-1825 written by W. Rosslyn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700-1825 is a collection of essays by leading researchers shedding new light on women as writers, actresses, nuns and missionaries. It illuminates the lives of merchant and serf women as well as noblewomen and focuses on women's culture in Russia during this period.

Mother Russia

Author : Joanna Hubbs
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253115782
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Mother Russia written by Joanna Hubbs and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-22 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joanna Hubbs has found the trace of Baba Yaga and the rusalki and Moist Mother Earth and other fascinating feminine myths in Russian culture, and has added richly to the growing interest in popular culture." -- New York Times Book Review "... brave... fascinating... immensely enjoyable... " -- Times Higher Education Supplement "... a stimulating and original study... vivid and readable." -- Russian Review "An immensely stimulating, beautifully written work of scholarship." -- Francine du Plessix Gray "Joanna Hubbs has provided scholars... with a wealth of significant interpretive material to inform if not reform views of both Russian and women's cultures." -- Journal of American Folklore A ground-breaking interpretation of Russian culture from prehistory to the present, dealing with the feminine myth as a central cultural force.

Women in Nineteenth-Century Russia

Author : Wendy Rosslyn
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1906924651
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Women in Nineteenth-Century Russia written by Wendy Rosslyn and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of essays examines the lives of women across Russia--from wealthy noblewomen in St Petersburg to desperately poor peasants in Siberia--discussing their interaction with the Church and the law, and their rich contribution to music, art, literature and theatre. It shows how women struggled for greater autonomy and, both individually and collectively, developed a dynamic presence in Russia's culture and society"--Publisher's description.

Gender in Russian History and Culture

Author : L. Edmondson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230518923
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Gender in Russian History and Culture written by L. Edmondson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-07-11 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Fruits of Her Plume: Essays on Contemporary Russian Women's Culture

Author : Helena Goscilo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317470036
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Fruits of Her Plume: Essays on Contemporary Russian Women's Culture written by Helena Goscilo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1980s witnessed the ascendency of Russian women in multiple spheres of artistic creation, including literature, film, and painting. This volume may thus be said to engage not only women's artistic production but, indeed, the best and most colourful of recent Russian culture. Treating contemporary Russian women's creativity, it approaches women's texts, films, and canvasses from a range of perspectives, from anti-gendered to feminist. Some of the essays introduce writers not previously well studied, others challenge conventional interpretations and assumptions, while still others yield original viewpoints through novel juxtapositions. In addition to offering insights into the various artists under analysis, the essays map the wide terrain of issues and methodologies proliferating in cultural criticism today, and mirror the diversity that is one of the most appealing features of women's creativity in contemporary Russia.

Russia--women--culture

Author : Helena Goscilo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780585000930
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Russia--women--culture written by Helena Goscilo and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines areas of cultural production that have offered Russian women new freedoms and have opened commercial and artistic possibilities to them since the 19th century. Key aspects of Russian culture that have been systematically ignored are foregrounded here: Russian women s development of "popular" culture and their ingenious reinventions of "high" literature. The essays analyze women s creativity of every type their products, performances, and collaborative exchanges in sites that range from the bath-house to the ballroom. Contributors are Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Lina Bernstein, Nancy Condee, Darra Goldstein, Helena Goscilo, Gitta Hammarberg, Alison Hilton, Beth Holmgren, Mary B. Kelly, Louise McReynolds, Nadya L. Peterson, Stephanie Sandler, and Ol ga Vainshtein.

Women with a Thirst for Destruction

Author : Jenny Kaminer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780810129467
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book Women with a Thirst for Destruction written by Jenny Kaminer and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2014 AWSS Best Book in Slavic/East European/Eurasian Women's Studies In Russian culture, the archetypal mother is noble and self-sacrificing. In Women with a Thirst for Destruction, however, Jenny Kaminer shows how this image is destabilized during periods of dramatic rupture in Russian society, examining in detail the aftermath of three key moments in the country s history: the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the fall of the Communist regime in 1991. She explores works both familiar and relatively unexamined: Leo Tolstoy s Anna Karenina, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin s The Golovlev Family, Fyodor Gladkov s Cement, and Liudmila Petrushevskaia s The Time: Night, as well as a late Soviet film (Vyacheslav Krishtofovich s Adam s Rib, 1990) and media coverage of the Chechen conflict. Kaminer s book speaks broadly to the mutability of seemingly established cultural norms in the face of political and social upheaval. "

Times of Trouble

Author : Marcus C. Levitt
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299224301
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Times of Trouble written by Marcus C. Levitt and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the country that has added to our vocabulary such colorful terms as "purges," "pogroms," and "gulag," this collection investigates the conspicuous marks of violence in Russian history and culture. Russians and non-Russians alike have long debated the reasons for this endemic violence. Some have cited Russia's huge size, unforgiving climate, and exposed geographical position as formative in its national character, making invasion easy and order difficult. Others have fixed the blame on cultural and religious traditions that spurred internecine violence or on despotic rulers or unfortunate episodes in the nation's history, such as the Mongol invasion, the rule of Ivan the Terrible, or the "Red Terror" of the revolution. Even in contemporary Russia, the specter of violence continues, from widespread mistreatment of women to racial antagonism, the product of a frustrated nationalism that manifests itself in such phenomena as the wars in Chechnya. Times of Trouble is the first in English to explore the problem of violence in Russia. From a variety of perspectives, essays investigate Russian history as well as depictions of violence in the visual arts and in literature, including the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Isaac Babel, Mikhail Lermontov, and Nina Sadur. From the Mongol invasion to the present day, topics include the gulag, genocide, violence against women, anti-Semitism, and terrorism as a tool of revolution.

Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-century Russian Culture

Author : Helena Goscilo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-century Russian Culture written by Helena Goscilo and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining concepts and methodologies from anthropology, history, linguistics, literature, music, cultural studies, and film studies, this collection of ten original essays addresses issues crucial to gender and national identity in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 to the present. Collectively, these interdisciplinary essays explore how traditional gender inequities influenced the social processes of nation building in Russia and how men and women responded to those developments. Available in both clothbound and paperback editions, Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture offers fresh insights to students and scholars in the fields of gender studies, nationhood studies, and Russian history, literature, and culture.

Russia • Women • Culture

Author : Helena Goscilo
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253210449
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Russia • Women • Culture written by Helena Goscilo and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996-05-22 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Een aantal essays over de culturele bijdrage die Russische vrouwen geleverd hebben aan de Russische beschaving. De volgende bijdragen zijn opgenomen: The second fantasy mother, or all baths are women's baths / door Nancy Condee; Keeping a-breast of the waist-land: women's fashion in early-nineteenth-century Russia / door Helena Goscilo; Female fashion, Soviet style: bodies of ideology / door Ol'ga Vainshtein; Getting under their skin: the beauty salon in Russian women's lives / door Nadezhda Azhgikhina en Helena Goscilo; Domestic porkbarreling in nineteenth-century Russia, or who holds the keys to the larder / door Darra Goldstein; The ritual fabrics of Russian village women / door Mary B. Kelly; Dirty women: cultural connotations of cleanliness in Soviet Russia / door Nadya L. Peterson; Women on the verge of new language: Russian salon hostesses in the first half of the nineteenth century / door Lina Bernstein; Stepping out/going under: women Russia's twentieth-century salons / door Beth Holmgren; Pleasure, danger, and the dance: nineteenth-century Russian variations / door Stephanie Sandler; "The incomparable" Anastasiia Vial'tsva and the culture of personality / door Louise McReynolds; Flirting with words: domestic albums, 1770-1840 / Gitta Hammarberg; Gendering the icon: marketing women writers in fin-de-siècle Russia / door Beth Holmgren; Domestic crafts and creative freedom: Russian women's art / door Alison Hilton.

Sexuality and the Body in Russian Culture

Author : Jane T. Costlow
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804731553
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Sexuality and the Body in Russian Culture written by Jane T. Costlow and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve groundbreaking essays show the varied and complex ways in which ideas about sexuality, gender, and the body have shaped and been influenced by Russian literature, history, art, and philosophy from the medieval period to the present day.

Global Russian Cultures

Author : Kevin M. F. Platt
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299319709
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Global Russian Cultures written by Kevin M. F. Platt and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there an essential Russian identity? What happens when "Russian" literature is written in English, by such authors as Gary Shteyngart or Lara Vapnyar? What is the geographic "home" of Russian culture created and shared via the internet? Global Russian Cultures innovatively considers these and many related questions about the literary and cultural life of Russians who in successive waves of migration have dispersed to the United States, Europe, and Israel, or who remained after the collapse of the USSR in Ukraine, the Baltic states, and the Central Asian states. The volume's internationally renowned contributors treat the many different global Russian cultures not as "displaced" elements of Russian cultural life but rather as independent entities in their own right. They describe diverse forms of literature, music, film, and everyday life that transcend and defy political, geographic, and even linguistic borders. Arguing that Russian cultures today are many, this volume contends that no state or society can lay claim to be the single or authentic representative of Russianness. In so doing, it contests the conceptions of culture and identity at the root of nation-building projects in and around Russia.

Framing Mary

Author : Amy Singleton Adams
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 160909235X
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Framing Mary written by Amy Singleton Adams and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the continued fascination with the Virgin Mary in modern and contemporary times, very little of the resulting scholarship on this topic extends to Russia. Russia's Mary, however, who is virtually unknown in the West, has long played a formative role in Russian society and culture. Framing Mary introduces readers to the cultural life of Mary from the seventeenth century to the post-Soviet era. It examines a broad spectrum of engagements among a variety of people—pilgrims and poets, clergy and laity, politicians and political activists—and the woman they knew as the Bogoroditsa. In this collection of well-integrated and illuminating essays, leading scholars of imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia trace Mary's irrepressible pull and inexhaustible promise from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Focusing in particular on the ways in which both visual and narrative images of Mary frame perceptions of Russian and Soviet space and inform discourse about women and motherhood, these essays explore Mary's rich and complex role in Russia's religion, philosophy, history, politics, literature, and art. Framing Mary will appeal to Russian studies scholars, historians, and general readers interested in religion and Russian culture.

Meanings and Values of Water in Russian Culture

Author : Jane Costlow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317099222
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Meanings and Values of Water in Russian Culture written by Jane Costlow and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a team of scholars from the diverse fields of geography, literary studies, and history, this is the first volume to study water as a cultural phenomenon within the Russian/Soviet context. Water in this context is both a cognitive and cultural construct and a geographical and physical phenomenon, representing particular rivers (the Volga, the Chusovaia in the Urals, the Neva) and bodies of water (from Baikal to sacred springs and the flowing water of nineteenth-century estates), but also powerful systems of meaning from traditional cultures and those forged in the radical restructuring undertaken in the 1930s. Individual chapters explore the polyvalence and contestation of meanings, dimensions, and values given to water in various times and spaces in Russian history. The reservoir of symbolic association is tapped by poets and film-makers but also by policy-makers, the popular press, and advertisers seeking to incite reaction or drive sales. The volume's emphasis on the cultural dimensions of water will link material that is often widely disparate in time and space; it will also serve as the methodological framework for the analysis undertaken both within chapters and in the editors' introduction.

Russian Culture in War and Revolution, 1914-22

Author : Melissa Kirschke Stockdale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780893579234
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book Russian Culture in War and Revolution, 1914-22 written by Melissa Kirschke Stockdale and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Equality and Revolution

Author : Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822973758
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Equality and Revolution written by Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 20, 1917, Russia became the world's first major power to grant women the right to vote and hold public office. Yet in the wake of the October Revolution later that year, the foundational organizations and individuals who pioneered the suffragist cause were all but erased from Russian history. The women's movement, when mentioned at all, is portrayed as meaningless to proletariat and peasant women, based in elitist and bourgeoisie culture of the tsarist era, and counter to socialist ideology. In this groundbreaking book, Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild reveals that Russian feminists in fact appealed to all classes and were an integral force for revolution and social change, particularly during the monumental uprisings of 1905-1917. Ruthchild offers a telling examination of the dynamics present in imperialist Russia that fostered a growing feminist movement. Based upon extensive archival research in six countries, she analyzes the backgrounds, motivations, methods, activism, and organizational networks of early Russian feminists, revealing the foundations of a powerful feminist intelligentsia that came to challenge, and eventually bring down, the patriarchal tsarist regime. Ruthchild profiles the individual women (and a few men) who were vital to the feminist struggle, as well as the major conferences, publications, and organizations that promoted the cause. She documents political party debates on the acceptance of women's suffrage and rights, and follows each party's attempt to woo feminist constituencies despite their fear of women gaining too much political power. Ruthchild also compares and contrasts the Russian movement to those in Britain, China, Germany, France, and the United States. Equality and Revolution offers an original and revisionist study of the struggle for women's political rights in late imperial Russia, and presents a significant reinterpretation of a decisive period of Russian--and world--history.