Terrible Perfection Women and Russian Literature [Hardcover]

... the first thorough-going feminist study of Russian literature. The Slavonic Review

... a ground-breaking book.... Written with verve and wit... a pleasure to read. Slavic Review

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I. The Fictions of Russian Men

1. The Russian Heroine: Where to Find Her and Where Not to
2. Misogny and the Power of Silence
3. Tolstoys Path toward Feminism
4. Woman Is Everywhere Passive: Chekhov and the Centurys End

Part II. Womens Autobiography in Russia

5. Public and Private Lives
6. Mothers and Daughters
7. The Emerging Writer

Part III. Womens Poetry in Russia

8. From Folklore through the Nineteenth Century
9. Four Modern Women Poets

Conclusions....and Continuations

Notes
Index