Mother Russia The Feminine Myth in Russian Culture [Paperback]

Joanna Hubbs has found the trace of Baba Yaga and the rusalki and Moist Mother Earth and other fascinating feminine myths in Russian culture, and has added richly to the growing interest in popular culture. New York Times Book Review

... brave... fascinating... immensely enjoyable... Times Higher Education Supplement

... a stimulating and original study... vivid and readable. Russian Review

An immensely stimulating, beautifully written work of scholarship. Francine du Plessix Gray

Joanna Hubbs has provided scholars... with a wealth of significant interpretive material to inform if not reform views of both Russian and womens cultures. Journal of American Folklore

A ground-breaking interpretation of Russian culture from prehistory to the present, dealing with the feminine myth as a central cultural force.

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Russia as Mother

Part One: Mothers

Chapter One: The First Mothers
Chapter Two: Reconstructing the Russian Great Goddess: Rusalki and Baba Yaga
Chapter Three: Reconstructing the Russian Great Goddess: Mother Earth
Chapter Four: The Coming of Christianity: Mary and Paraskeva-Piatnitsa

Part Two: Mothers Sons

Chapter Five: Epic Heroes and Disobedient Sons
Chapter Six: From Saintly Son to Autocratic Father: The Myth of the Ruler
Chapter Seven: Pushkin and Other Champions from the Intelligentsia

Conclusion: The Mother as Russia

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Illustrations follow p. 123