Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Part One: Theoretical Perspectives -- 1 An Image of Their Own?: Feminism, Revisionism and Russian Culture -- 2 Reading the Texts – Rereading Ourselves -- Part Two: Women and Russian Culture: from the Nineteenth Century to the Revolution -- 3 The Benevolent Matriarch in Elena Gan and Mar’ia Zhukova -- 4 Mid-Nineteenth-Century Domestic Ideology in Russia -- 5 Criticism and Journalism at the Turn of the Century on the Work of Russian Women Writers -- 6 Actresses, Audience and Fashion in the Silver Age: a Crisis of Costume -- Part Three: Women Writers from the Revolution to the Present -- 7 The Art of Suggesting More: Akhmatova and the Diaphoric Manner -- 8 Under an Unwomanly Star: War in the Writing of Ol’ga Berggol’ts -- 9 A Difficult Journey: Evgeniia Ginzburg and Women’s Writing of Camp Memoirs -- 10 Women Memoirists on Pasternak -- 11 Iuliia Voznesenskaia: a Fragmentary Vision -- 12 The Other Woman: Character Portrayal and the Narrative Voice in the Short Stories of Liudmila Petrushevskaia -- 13 Contemporary Women Poets in the Metropolis and Diaspora -- Part Four: The Image of Women in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature -- 14 Gaps in the Cosmogony: Witchcraft Imagery in Andrei Bely’s Kotik Letaev -- 15 The Romantic Presentation of the Heroine in Selected Works of Aleksandr Grin -- 16 Is Village Prose Misogynistic? -- 17 Real and Unreal Women in the Works of Chingiz Aitmatov -- 18 The Image of Women in the Prose of Sergei Dovlatov -- 19 In the Shadow of a Prominent Partner: Educated Women in Literature on the shestidesiatniki -- 20 Russian Women in Anatoly Kurchatkin -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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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

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