Women in nineteenth-century Russia : lives and culture /

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"This collection of essays examines the lives of women across Russia--from wealthy noblewomen in St Petersburg to desperately poor peasants in Siberia--discussing their interaction with the Church and the law, and their rich contribution to music, art, literature and theatre. It shows how women...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Rosslyn, Wendy (Editor), Tosi, Alessandra (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, [2012]
Subjects:
1533-1917
Upper class women > Russia > History > 19th century.
Women > Russia > Social conditions.
Femmes de la classe supérieure > Russie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Femmes > Russie > Conditions sociales.
Eastern Europe.
Europe.
Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)
Gender studies, gender groups.
Gender studies: women.
History.
Humanities.
Regional and national history.
Russia.
Social groups.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
LAW > Computer & Internet.
Upper class women
Manners and customs
Civilization
Social conditions
Women
Women > Social conditions
Russia > Social life and customs > 1533-1917.
Russie > Mœurs et coutumes > 1533-1917.
Russia
Russian history
Women's history
Feminism
Nineteenth century
Cultural studies
Women in the arts
Gender studies
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : framing the view : Russian women in the long nineteenth century / Sibelan Forrester
  • Women and urban culture / Barbara Alpern Engel
  • Russian peasant women's culture : three voices / Christine D. Worobec
  • Mary and women in late Imperial Russian Orthodoxy / Vera Shevzov
  • Women and the visual arts / Rosalind P. Blakesley
  • Women and music / Philip Ross Bullock
  • The rise of the actress in early nineteenth-century Russia / Julie A. Cassiday
  • "How women should write" : Russian women's writing in the nineteenth century / Arja Rosenholm and Irina Savkina
  • Between law and morality : violence against women in nineteenth-century Russia / Marianna G. Muravyeva.

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