Gender and Sexuality in Russian CivilisationPeter I. Barta Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation considers gender and sexuality in modern Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters look individually at gender and sexuality through history, art, folklore, philosophy or literature,but are also arranged into sections according to the arguments they develop. A number of chapters also consider Russia in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Thematic sections include: *Gender and Power *Gender and National Identity *Sexual Identity and Artistic Impression *Literary Discourse of Male and Female Sexualities *Sexuality and Literature in Contemporary Russian Society |
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The Sartorial Transformation of Women | 17 |
Images of Female Rule in the Eighteenth | 33 |
Nadezhda Durovas Subversive | 55 |
Lowell and Cixous Rewriting Akhmatova | 71 |
Gender Distinctions in Russian Childlore | 89 |
Nikolai Leskov Gender and Russianness | 105 |
Russia and Feminine Passivity | 119 |
The Woman Poets Tatiana | 205 |
Marina Tsvetaeva and Island Variant Eros | 221 |
Dostoevskiis HomophiliaHomophobia | 239 |
Sex Religion and Censorship in A Russian Womans Novel of | 255 |
Women and Male Angst in the Fiction of Daniil | 279 |
Sexuality and Literature in Contemporary Russian | 293 |
The Artists Controversial Subject | 311 |
Viktor Erofeevs Russian Beauty | 325 |
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