Women in Medieval Russian Culture and Literature
Title | Women in Medieval Russian Culture and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Yekaterina V. Popova |
Publisher | |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Kievan Rus |
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A History of Women's Writing in Russia
Title | A History of Women's Writing in Russia PDF eBook |
Author | Adele Marie Barker |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 411 |
Release | 2002-07-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139433156 |
A History of Women's Writing in Russia offers a comprehensive account of the lives and works of Russia's women writers. Based on original and archival research, this volume forces a re-examination of many of the traditionally held assumptions about Russian literature and women's role in the tradition. In setting about the process of reintegrating women writers into the history of Russian literature, contributors have addressed the often surprising contexts within which women's writing has been produced. Chapters reveal a flourishing literary tradition where none was thought to exist. They redraw the map defining Russia's literary periods, they look at how Russia's women writers articulated their own experience, and they reassess their relationship to the dominant male tradition. The volume is supported by extensive reference features including a bibliography and guide to writers and their works.
The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women
Title | The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Chance |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2007-08-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230605591 |
This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition. To dismantle a colonizing culture, they made public the private feminine space allocated by gender difference: they constructed 'unhomely' spaces. They inverted gender roles of characters to valorize the female; they created alternate idealized feminist societies and cultures, or utopias, through fantasy; and they legitimized female triviality the homely female space to provide autonomy. While these methodologies often overlapped in practice, they illustrate how cultures impinge on languages to create what Deleuze and Guattari have identified as a minor literature, specifically for women as dis-placed. Women writers discussed include Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France, Marguerite Porete, Catherine of Siena, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and Christine de Pizan.
Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700-1825
Title | Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700-1825 PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Rosslyn |
Publisher | Palgrave MacMillan |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2007-10-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700-1825 is a collection of essays by leading researchers shedding new light on women as writers, actresses, nuns, and missionaries. It illuminates the lives of merchant and serf women as well as noblewomen and focuses on women's culture in Russia during this period.
Women in Russian History
Title | Women in Russian History PDF eBook |
Author | Natalia Pushkareva |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2016-09-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1315480433 |
As the first survey of the history of women in Russia to be published in any language, this book is itself an historic event -- the result of the collaboration of the leading Russian and American specialists on Russian women's history. The book is divided in to four chronological parts corresponding to eras of Russian history: (I) Kievan/Mongol (10th - 15th centuries); (II) Muscovite ( 16th - 17th centuries); (III) 18th century; and (IV) 19th - early 20th centuries. Each part gives coverage to four main topics: (1) The role of prominent women in public life, with biographical sketches of women who attained prominence in political or cultural life; (2) Women's daily life and family roles; (3) Women's status under the law; (4) Material culture and in particular women's dress as an expression of their place in society.
Sexuality and the Body in Russian Culture
Title | Sexuality and the Body in Russian Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Jane T. Costlow |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780804731553 |
Twelve groundbreaking essays show the varied and complex ways in which ideas about sexuality, gender, and the body have shaped and been influenced by Russian literature, history, art, and philosophy from the medieval period to the present day.
Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-century Russian Culture
Title | Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-century Russian Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Helena Goscilo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Combining concepts and methodologies from anthropology, history, linguistics, literature, music, cultural studies, and film studies, this collection of ten original essays addresses issues crucial to gender and national identity in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 to the present. Collectively, these interdisciplinary essays explore how traditional gender inequities influenced the social processes of nation building in Russia and how men and women responded to those developments. Available in both clothbound and paperback editions, Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture offers fresh insights to students and scholars in the fields of gender studies, nationhood studies, and Russian history, literature, and culture.