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.