Vanuit verschillende perspectieven wordt de literatuur van 19e en 20e eeuwse Slavisch-talige auteurs behandeld aan de hand van westerse vrouwenstudies-onderzoeksmethoden. De volgende bijdragen zijn opgenomen: Abusing the erotic: women in Turgenev's 'First love' / door Jane Costlow: The deconstruction of Sappho Stolz: some Russian abuses and uses of the tenth muse / door Diana L. Burgin: The daughters of Emilia Plater / door Halina Filipowicz: The landscape of recollection: Tolstoy's childhood and the feminization of the countryside / door Pamela Chester: Modernism vs. populism in 'Fin de Siècle' Ukrainian literature: a case of gender conflict / door Solomea Pavlychko: Wooing the other woman: gender in women's love poetry in the Silver Age / door Sibelan Forrester: Mothers and daughters: variations on family themes in Tsvetaeva's The house at Old Pimen / door Natasha Kolchevska: Angels in the Stalinist house: Nadezhda Mandel'shtam, Lidiia Chukovskaia, Lidiia Ginzburg, and Russian women's autobiography: writing the virgin, writing the crone: Maria Kuncewicz's embodiments of faith / door Magadalena Zaborowska: Mother, daughter, self, and other: the lyrics of Inna Lisnianskaia and Mariia Petrovykh / door Stephanie Sandler: Women-centered narratives in contemporary Serbian and Croatian literatures / door Jasmina Lukic.