Gender in Russian History and Culture

JOE ANDREW Professor of Russian Literature, Keele University LYNNE ATTWOOD Senior Lecturer in Russian Studies, University of Manchester SUE BRIDGER Reader in Russian Studies, University of Bradford MARY BUCKLEY Professor of Political at Royal Holloway, University of London DAN HEALEY Lecturer in Russian History, University of Swansea MELANIE ILIC Senior Lecturer, Soviet History and Women's Studies, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education and Research Fellow, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham CATRIONA KELLY Reader in Russian, New College, University of Oxford IRINA KOROVUSHKINA PAERT Simon Research Fellow, University of Manchester PETER ULF MA LLER Professor of Russian, University of Aarhus ARJA ROSENHOLM Academic Assistant in Slavonic Languages, University of Tampere, Finland

This volume charts the changing aspects of gender in Russia's cultural and social history from the late seventeenth century to the Stalinist era and the collapse of the Soviet Union.This volume charts the changing aspects of gender in Russia's cultural and social history from the late seventeenth century to the Stalinist era and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The works, while focusing on women as a primary subject, highlight in particular gender difference, the construction of both femininity and masculinity in a culture that has undergone major transformation and disruptions over the period of three centuries.