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Volume 2
Slavic Literature, Culture & Society
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Women and Russian Culture
Projections and Self-Perceptions
Edited by Rosalind Marsh
288 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-57181-913-0 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Published (November 1998)
eISBN 978-1-78920-592-3 eBook
Reviews
"... a rich, complex and diverse collection of essays. The questions raised are provocative and worthy of further development and discussion." · H-Net Reviews
Description
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
Rosalind Marsh was awarded an M.A. at Cambridge and a D.Phil. at Oxford and taught at The Queen's University of Belfast and the University of Exeter before taking up the position of Professor of Russian Studies and Director of the Centre of Women's Studies at the University of Bath.