Women and gender in 18th-century Russia / edited by Wendy Rosslyn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosslyn, Wendy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Upper class women--Russia--History--18th century.

Upper class women.

Women--Russia--Social conditions.

Women.

History.

Russia.

Social conditions.

Russia--Social life and customs--1533-1917.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

x, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]

Contents:

Women in Russia (1700-1825): Recent Research / Wendy Rosslyn 1

1 'The Crown of Maidenly Honour and Virtue': Redefining Femininity in Peter I's Russia / Lindsey Hughes 35

2 Feminisation as Functionalisation: the Presentation of Femininity by the Sentimentalist Man / Carolin Heyder, Arja Rosenholm 51

3 Cosmetics

or Dying to Overcome Nature in an Age of Art and Artifice / Helena Goscilo 73

4 Love and the Lap-Dog / Semeon Ekshtut 105

5 Russian Noblewomen's Education in the Home as Revealed in Late 18th- and Early 19th-Century Memoris / Natal'ia L. Pushkareva 111

6 Imaginary World: Reading in the Lives of Russian Provincial Noblewomen (1750-1825) / Olga E. Glagoleva 129

7 Women's Letters and Russian Noble Culture of the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries / Anna Belova 147

8 Observations on the Life and Work of Elizaveta Kheraskova (1737-1809) / Frank Gopfert 163

9 Women, Critics, and Women Critics in Early Russian Women's Journals / Gitta Hammarberg 187

10 From Maintenance to Entitlement: Defining the Dowry in 18th-Century Russia / Michelle Lamarche Marrese 209

11 Marriage, Church, and Community in 18th-Century St Petersburg / Robin Bisha 227

12 Episodes from Women's Lives in the Reign of Peter I / Ol'ga Kosheleva 243

13 Female Employees in the Russian Imperial Theatres (1785-1825) / Wendy Rosslyn 257.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754605051

OCLC:

49795646