Russia - Women - Culture

This volume examines areas of cultural production that have offered Russian women new freedoms and have opened commercial and artistic possibilities to them since the 19th century. Key aspects of Russian culture that have been systematically ignored are foregrounded here: Russian women's development of "popular" culture and their ingenious reinventions of "high" literature. The essays analyze women's creativity of every type -- their products, performances, and collaborative exchanges -- in sites that range from the bath-house to the ballroom.Contributors are Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Lina Bernstein, Nancy Condee, Darra Goldstein, Helena Goscilo, Gitta Hammarberg, Alison Hilton, Beth Holmgren, Mary B. Kelly, Louise McReynolds, Nadya L. Peterson, Stephanie Sandler, and Ol'ga Vainshtein.

HELENA GOSCILO is Professor of Russian at the University of Pittsburgh. Her publications include Balancing Acts and Fruits of Her Plume. BETH HOLMGREN is Associate Professor of Slavic Literatures at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is author of Women's Works in Stalin's Time: On Lidiia Chukovskaia and Nadezhda Mandelstam.

Introduction
The Second Fantasy Mother, or All Baths Are Women's Baths	p. 3
Keeping A-Breast of the Waist-land: Women's Fashion in Early-Nineteenth-Century Russia	p. 31
Female Fashion, Soviet Style: Bodies of Ideology	p. 64
Getting Under Their Skin: The Beauty Salon in Russian Women's Lives	p. 94
Domestic Porkbarreling in Nineteenth-Century Russia, or Who Holds the Keys to the Larder?	p. 125
The Ritual Fabrics of Russian Village Women	p. 152
Dirty Women: Cultural Connotations of Cleanliness in Soviet Russia	p. 177
Women on the Verge of a New Language: Russian Salon Hostesses in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century	p. 209
Stepping Out/Going Under: Women in Russia's Twentieth-Century Salons	p. 225
Pleasure, Danger, and the Dance: Ninteenth-Century Russian Variations	p. 247
"The Incomparable" Anastasiia Vial'tseva and the Culture of Personality	p. 273
Flirting with Words: Domestic Albums, 1770-1840	p. 297
Gendering the Icon: Marketing Women Writers in Fin-de-Siecle Russia	p. 321
Domestic Crafts and Creative Freedom: Russian Women's Art	p. 347
Contributors	p. 377
Index	p. 379
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