Gender in Russian History and Culture

LINDA EDMONDSON is Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. She is author of Feminism in Russia, 1900-1917, editor of Women and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union and is co-editor of Civil Rights in Imperial Russia and Economy and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union .

'...this work will be useful for seminar discussions and additional reading in lecture courses.' - Martha Bohachevsky Chomiak, Slavic Review

• Notes on the Contributors Introduction; L.Edmondson Educating Tat'yana: Manners, Motherhood and Moral Education (Vospitanie), 1760-1840; C.Kelly Gender and Salvation: Representations of Difference in Old Believer Writings from the Late Seventeenth Century to the 1820s; I.K.Paert A Crocodile in Flannel or a Dancing Monkey: the Image of the Russian Woman Writer, 1790-1850; J.Andrew Mariya Vernadskaya: Missionary of 'Scientific Femininity'; A.Rosenholm Belles-lettres with a Touch of Filth : On the Contemporary Reception of Leonid Andreev's Stories, The Abyss and In the Fog; P.U.Møller Unruly Identities: Soviet Psychiatry Confronts the 'Female Homosexual' of the 1920s; D.Healey Biding Their Time: Women Workers and the Regulation of Hours of Employment in the 1920s; M.Ilic Rationality versus Romanticism: Representations of Women in the Stalinist Press; L.Attwood Complex 'Realities' of 'New' Women in the 1930s: Assertive, Superior, Belittled and Beaten; M.Buckley The Heirs of Pasha: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Woman Tractor Driver; S.Bridger Index