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Klappentext This volume offers an interdisciplinary insight into the study of women and gender relations in Russian and Soviet society. Zusammenfassung The study of women and gender relations has become one of the most productive fields of research into Russian and Soviet society and this volume offers an interdisciplinary insight into the field. Written by leading Western scholars! it spans the last decade of tsarist Russia! the 1917 revolutions and the Soviet period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. 'Better halves'? Representations of women in Russian urban popular entertainments, 1870-1910 Catriona Kelly; 2. The Silver Age: highpoint for women? Charlotte Rosenthal; 3. Women pharmacists in Russia before World War I: women's emancipation, feminism, professionalization, nationalism and class conflict Mary Schaeffer Conroy; 4. Women's rights, civil rights and the debate over citizenship in the 1905 Revolution Linda Edmondson; 5. Laying the foundations of democracy in Russia: E. D. Kuskova's contribution, February-October 1917 Barbara T. Norton; 6. Mariia L. Bochkareva and the Russian amazons of 1917 Richard Abraham; 7. Russian women writers: an overview. Post-revolutionary dispersion and adjustment Marina Ledkovsky (Astman); 8 .Victim or villain? Prostitution in post-revolutionary Russia Elizabeth Waters; 9. Young women and perestroika Sue Bridger; 10. Glasnost and the woman question Mary Buckley.
