Russia }}} Women }}} Culture [Paperback]

This volume examines areas of cultural production that have offered Russian women new freedoms and have opened commercial and artistic possibilities to them since the 19th century. Key aspects of Russian culture that have been systematically ignored are foregrounded here: Russian womens development of popular culture and their ingenious reinventions of high literature. The essays analyze womens creativity of every typetheir products, performances, and collaborative exchangesin sites that range from the bath-house to the ballroom.

Contributors are Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Lina Bernstein, Nancy Condee, Darra Goldstein, Helena Goscilo, Gitta Hammarberg, Alison Hilton, Beth Holmgren, Mary B. Kelly, Louise McReynolds, Nadya L. Peterson, Stephanie Sandler, and Olga Vainshtein.

Introduction by Helena Goscilo and Beth Holmgren

Part I: Spiritual Facilitations
1. The Second Fantasy Mother, or All Baths Are Womens BathsNancy Condee
2. The Ritual Fabrics of Russian Village WomenMary B. Kelly

Part II: Body Works
3. Keeping A-breast of the Waist-land: Womens Fashion in Early-Nineteenth-Century RussiaHelena Goscilo
4. Female Fashion, Soviet Style: Bodies of IdeologyOlga Vainshtein
5. Getting under Their Skin: The Beauty Salon in Russian Women LivesNadezhda Azhgikhina and Helena Goscilo

Part III: Domestications
6. Flirting with Words: Domestic Albums, 17701840Gitta Hammarberg
7. Domestic Porkbarreling in Nineteenth-Century Russia or Who Holds the Keys to the Larder?Darra Goldstein
8. Dirty Women: Cultural Connotations of Cleanliness in Soviet RussiaNadya Peterson

Part IV: Performing Arts
9. Women on the Verge of a New Language: Russian Salon Hostesses in the First Half of the Nineteenth CenturyLina Bernstein
10. Stepping Out/Going Under: Women in Russias Twentieth-Century SalonsBeth Holmgren
11. Pleasure, Danger, and the Dance: Nineteenth-Century Russian VariationsStephanie Sandler
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