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Women in nineteenth-century Russia : lives and culture / edited by Wendy Rosslyn and Alessandra Tosi.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012 Description: 1 online resource (xi, 248 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1906924678
  • 9781906924676
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification:
  • 305.4094709034
LOC classification:
  • HQ1662
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : framing the view : Russian women in the long nineteenth century / Sibelan Forrester -- Women and urban culture / Barbara Alpern Engel -- Russian peasant women's culture : three voices / Christine D. Worobec -- Mary and women in late Imperial Russian Orthodoxy / Vera Shevzov -- Women and the visual arts / Rosalind P. Blakesley -- Women and music / Philip Ross Bullock -- The rise of the actress in early nineteenth-century Russia / Julie A. Cassiday -- "How women should write" : Russian women's writing in the nineteenth century / Arja Rosenholm and Irina Savkina -- Between law and morality : violence against women in nineteenth-century Russia / Marianna G. Muravyeva.
Summary: "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.
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Introduction : framing the view : Russian women in the long nineteenth century / Sibelan Forrester -- Women and urban culture / Barbara Alpern Engel -- Russian peasant women's culture : three voices / Christine D. Worobec -- Mary and women in late Imperial Russian Orthodoxy / Vera Shevzov -- Women and the visual arts / Rosalind P. Blakesley -- Women and music / Philip Ross Bullock -- The rise of the actress in early nineteenth-century Russia / Julie A. Cassiday -- "How women should write" : Russian women's writing in the nineteenth century / Arja Rosenholm and Irina Savkina -- Between law and morality : violence against women in nineteenth-century Russia / Marianna G. Muravyeva.

"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.

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