Helena Goscilo is UCIS Research Professor and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. Andrea Lanoux is Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Studies at Connecticut College.

This excellent collection offers one of the first sustained discussions of the fertile intersection of gender and nation... essential for any student of twentieth-century Russian cultural history.- Michael Gorham, author of Speaking in Soviet Tongues Valuable.... All ten essays in the collection represent impressive and original scholarship, and there are some exceptionally interesting and well-written contributions.(CANADIAN SLAVONIC PAPERS) An important, well-organized, and focused collection of essays that explores the complex relationship of gender and national identity in Russia.(The Russian Review)

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: Lost in the MythsHelena Goscilo and Andrea LanouxChapter 1: National, Cultural, and Gender Identity in the Russian LanguageValentina ZaitsevaChapter 2: Widowhood as Genre and Profession à la Russe: Nation, Shadow, Curator, and Publicity AgentHelena GosciloChapter 3: Mothers of Communists: Women Revolutionaries and the Construction of a Soviet IdentityElizabeth Jones HemenwayChapter 4: Forging Soviet Masculinity in Nikolai Ekk's The Road to LifeLilya KaganovskyChapter 5: Reflecting Individual and Collective Identities: Songs of World War IISuzanne AmentChapter 6: The Post-Utopian Body Politic: Masculinity and the Crisis of National Identity in Brezhnev-Era TV MiniseriesElena ProkhorovaChapter 7: From "Demographic Crisis" to "Dying Nation": The Politics of Language and Reproduction in RussiaMichele Rivkin-FishChapter 8: Selling Russia: Prostitution, Masculinity, and Metaphors of Nationalism after PerestroikaEliot BorensteinChapter 9: Castrated Patriarchy, Violence, and Gender Hierarchies in Post-Soviet FilmYana HashamovaChapter 10: Raising a Pink Flag: The Reconstruction of Russian Gay Identity in the Shadow of Russian NationalismLuc Beaudoin

Helena Goscilo is UCIS Research Professor and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. Andrea Lanoux is Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Studies at Connecticut College.

This excellent collection offers one of the first sustained discussions of the fertile intersection of gender and nation... essential for any student of twentieth-century Russian cultural history.- Michael Gorham, author of Speaking in Soviet Tongues Valuable.... All ten essays in the collection represent impressive and original scholarship, and there are some exceptionally interesting and well-written contributions.(CANADIAN SLAVONIC PAPERS) An important, well-organized, and focused collection of essays that explores the complex relationship of gender and national identity in Russia.(The Russian Review)

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: Lost in the MythsHelena Goscilo and Andrea LanouxChapter 1: National, Cultural, and Gender Identity in the Russian LanguageValentina ZaitsevaChapter 2: Widowhood as Genre and Profession à la Russe: Nation, Shadow, Curator, and Publicity AgentHelena GosciloChapter 3: Mothers of Communists: Women Revolutionaries and the Construction of a Soviet IdentityElizabeth Jones HemenwayChapter 4: Forging Soviet Masculinity in Nikolai Ekk's The Road to LifeLilya KaganovskyChapter 5: Reflecting Individual and Collective Identities: Songs of World War IISuzanne AmentChapter 6: The Post-Utopian Body Politic: Masculinity and the Crisis of National Identity in Brezhnev-Era TV MiniseriesElena ProkhorovaChapter 7: From "Demographic Crisis" to "Dying Nation": The Politics of Language and Reproduction in RussiaMichele Rivkin-FishChapter 8: Selling Russia: Prostitution, Masculinity, and Metaphors of Nationalism after PerestroikaEliot BorensteinChapter 9: Castrated Patriarchy, Violence, and Gender Hierarchies in Post-Soviet FilmYana HashamovaChapter 10: Raising a Pink Flag: The Reconstruction of Russian Gay Identity in the Shadow of Russian NationalismLuc Beaudoin

Helena Goscilo is UCIS Research Professor and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. Andrea Lanoux is Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Studies at Connecticut College.

This excellent collection offers one of the first sustained discussions of the fertile intersection of gender and nation... essential for any student of twentieth-century Russian cultural history.- Michael Gorham, author of Speaking in Soviet Tongues Valuable.... All ten essays in the collection represent impressive and original scholarship, and there are some exceptionally interesting and well-written contributions.(CANADIAN SLAVONIC PAPERS) An important, well-organized, and focused collection of essays that explores the complex relationship of gender and national identity in Russia.(The Russian Review)

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: Lost in the MythsHelena Goscilo and Andrea LanouxChapter 1: National, Cultural, and Gender Identity in the Russian LanguageValentina ZaitsevaChapter 2: Widowhood as Genre and Profession à la Russe: Nation, Shadow, Curator, and Publicity AgentHelena GosciloChapter 3: Mothers of Communists: Women Revolutionaries and the Construction of a Soviet IdentityElizabeth Jones HemenwayChapter 4: Forging Soviet Masculinity in Nikolai Ekk's The Road to LifeLilya KaganovskyChapter 5: Reflecting Individual and Collective Identities: Songs of World War IISuzanne AmentChapter 6: The Post-Utopian Body Politic: Masculinity and the Crisis of National Identity in Brezhnev-Era TV MiniseriesElena ProkhorovaChapter 7: From "Demographic Crisis" to "Dying Nation": The Politics of Language and Reproduction in RussiaMichele Rivkin-FishChapter 8: Selling Russia: Prostitution, Masculinity, and Metaphors of Nationalism after PerestroikaEliot BorensteinChapter 9: Castrated Patriarchy, Violence, and Gender Hierarchies in Post-Soviet FilmYana HashamovaChapter 10: Raising a Pink Flag: The Reconstruction of Russian Gay Identity in the Shadow of Russian NationalismLuc Beaudoin