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Twelve groundbreaking essays show the varied and complex ways in
which ideas about sexuality, gender, and the body have shaped and
been influenced by Russian literature, history, art, and philosophy
from the medieval period to the present day.
This book demonstrates that sexuality and the body in Russian
culture is a valid, distinct, and complex subject, explores why so
little is known about it (compared with the practices and
discourses of sexuality in Western countries), and examines what we
do know.
Nineteenth-century Russia has been known to the West mainly through
the writings of men. Russian women, however, were far from silent
and have left vivid testimony about their families, their
education, their careers, and their country. This collection
presents, for the first time in English, the lives of eleven
remarkable Russian women as told in their own words. These
autobiographies span the century and cover a wide range of classes
and professions. Among the authors are women of the gentry (Natalia
Grot), the merchant class (Aleksandra Kobiakova), the lower
bureaucracy (Praskovia Tatlina), and the serf class (Liubov
Nikulina-Kositskaia). They include writers (Elizaveta Lvova,
Anastasia Verbitskaia), a journalist (Emilia Pimenova), an actress
in the provincial theater (Liubov Nikulina-Kositskaia), and two
physicians (Varvara Kashevarova-Rudneva, Ekaterina Slanskaia)-one
the first woman to earn a medical degree in Russia, the other a
doctor in the slums of St. Petersburg. Their memoirs show their
fierce engagement in the debate over woman's nature, her duties and
responsibilities, her upbringing, and her place in society. Each
autobiography is introduced and annotated by Toby Clyman and Judith
Vowles, who also provide a general introduction that situates these
writings within the Russian and Western autobiographical
traditions.
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