Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation

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ISBN: 9780415271301 | 0415271304
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/24/2001

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The chapters in this volume consider gender and sexuality as phenomena informing the post Petrine "modern" phase of Russian civilisation, offering a balance of interpretive, analytical and theoritical writings.

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Introduction to the Series
List of Contributors
Introduction	p. 1
Gender and Power
From Caftans into Corsets: The Sartorial Transformation of Women during the Reign of Peter the Great	p. 17
Amazon Autocratrixes: Images of Female Rule in the Eighteenth Century	p. 33
Gender Trial and Gothic Thrill: Nadezhda Durova's Subversive Self-Exploration	p. 55
Gender in Translation: Lowell and Cixous Rewriting Akhmatova	p. 71
Gender and National Identity
Acquiring an Identity: Gender Distinctions in Russian Childlore and Rituals	p. 89
Nikolai Leskov, Gender and Russianness	p. 105
Berdiaev and Chaadaev: Russia and Feminine Passivity	p. 121
Gender Theory and the Metaphysics of Losev and Florenskii: Flashpoint as Fleshpoint	p. 141
Sexual Identity and Artistic Expression
The Homo-Erotic Paintings of Aleksandr Ivanov	p. 163
The Famous White Box: The Creation of Mariia Bashkirtseva and Her Diary	p. 181
The Woman Poet's Tatiana	p. 205
Literary Discourses of Male and Female Sexualities
Marina Tsvetaeva dn Island Variant Eros	p. 221
Dostoevskii's Homophilia/Homophobia	p. 239
Sex, Religion and Censorship in A Russian Woman's Novel of the Silver Age: Anna Mar's Zhenshchina Na Kreste (Woman on the Cross)	p. 255
Guilt without Sex: Women and Male Angst in the Fiction of Daniil Kharns	p. 279
Sexuality and Literature in Contemporary Russian Society
The "Blue" Stage: Homosexuality in Russian Theatre and Drama of the 1990s	p. 295
Hiding and Using Sexuality: The Artist's Controversial Subject in Modern Russian Women's Literature	p. 311
The Apocalypse Revisited: Viktor Erofeev's Russian Beauty	p. 325
Index	p. 345
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