Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, I Gender and Power, II Gender and National Identity, III Sexual Identity and Artistic Expression, IV Literaray Discourses of Male and Female Sexualities, V Sexually and Literature in Contemporary Russian Society.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Peter I. Barta is Head of Russian Studies at the University of Surrey, UK.

Zusammenfassung

Considers gender and sexuality in Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters examine gender and sexuality through history, art, folklore, philosophy or literature, and are also grouped according to the arguments they develop.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Peter I Barta (Herausgeber), Barta Peter I. (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor and Francis
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 26.07.2001
• EAN: 9780415271301
• ISBN: 978-0-415-27130-1
• Seiten: 362
• Gewicht: 612 g
• Serie: Routledge Harwood Studies in Russian and European Literature
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet