This publication highlights how, from the 16th to the 19th centuries, European women, as readers and writers, contributed to the construction of national identities. The book, which presents twenty countries, is divided into four parts. First, it examines how women belonged to nations: they represented territories and political or religious communities in their own style. Second, it deals with the ways in which women wrote the nation: the network of relationships in which they were involved that were not necessarily national or territorial. The legitimation that women writers succeeded in finding is emphasised in the third section, while in the fourth is analysed how and why women were open to the outside world, beyond the country's borders.
This publication traces the lives and works of Russia's women writers from the Middle Ages to the present. The volume is supported by reference features including a bibliography and guide to writers and their works. Table of Contents: Introduction Adele Barker and Jehanne M Gheith: 1. Women's image in Russian medieval literature / Rosalind McKenzie. 2. Sappho, Corinna and Niobe: genres and personae in Russian women's writing, 1760-1820 / Catriona Kelly: 3. The inexperienced muse: Russian women and poetry in the first half of the nineteenth century / Judith Vowles: 4. Women of the 1830s and 1850s: alternative periods / Jehanne Gheith 5. 'A particle of our soul': pre-revolutionary autobiography by Russian women writers / Mary Zirin: 6. The women of Russian Montparnasse, Paris, 1920-1940 / Catherine Ciepiela: 7. Women in Russian symbolism: beyond the algebra of love / Jenifer Presto: 8. The Eastern path of exile: Russian women's writing in China / Olga Bakich and Carol Ueland: 9. Realist prose writers, 1881-1929 / Rosalind Marsh: 10. Women and gender in post-symbolist poetry and the Stalin era / Katherine Hodgson: 11. Writing the female body politic (1945-1985) / Beth Holmgren: 12. In their own words? Soviet women writers and the search for self / Anna Krylova: 13. Women's poetry since the sixties / Stephanie Sandler: 14. The persistence of memory: women's prose since the sixties / Adele Barker: 15. Perestroika and post-Soviet prose: from dazzle to dispersal / Helena Goscilo.
Een aantal essays over de culturele bijdrage die Russische vrouwen geleverd hebben aan de Russische beschaving. De volgende bijdragen zijn opgenomen: The second fantasy mother, or all baths are women's baths / door Nancy Condee: Keeping a-breast of the waist-land: women's fashion in early-nineteenth-century Russia / door Helena Goscilo: Female fashion, Soviet style: bodies of ideology / door Ol'ga Vainshtein: Getting under their skin: the beauty salon in Russsian women's lives / door Nadezhda Azhgikhina en Helena Goscilo: Domestic porkbarreling in nineteenth-century Russia, or who holds the keys to the larder / door Darra Goldstein: The ritual fabrics of Russian village women / door Mary B. Kelly: Dirty women: cultural connotations of cleanliness in Soviet Russia / door Nadya L. Peterson: Women on the verge of new language: Russian salon hostesses in the first half of the nineteenth century / door Lina Bernstein: Stepping out/going under: women Russia's twentieth-century salons / door Beth Holmgren: Pleasure, danger, and the dance: nineteenth-century Russian variations / door Stephanie Sandler: 'The incomparable' Anastasiia Vial'tsva and the culture of personality / door Louise McReynolds: Flirting with words: domestic albums, 1770-1840 / Gitta Hammarberg: Gendering the icon: marketing women writers in fin-de-siècle Russia / door Beth Holmgren: Domestic crafts and creative freedom: Russian women's art / door Alison Hilton.