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This collection of women's racialized and gendered mappings of
place, people, and nature includes the stories of teachers,
organizers, activists, farmers, healers, and gardeners. From their
many entry points, the contributors to this work engage crucial
questions of coexistence with nature in these times of overlapping
climate, health, economic, and racial crises.
This collection of women's racialized and gendered mappings of
place, people, and nature includes the stories of teachers,
organizers, activists, farmers, healers, and gardeners. From their
many entry points, the contributors to this work engage crucial
questions of coexistence with nature in these times of overlapping
climate, health, economic, and racial crises.
Sofia Petrovna Svechina (1782-1857), better known as Madame Sophie
Swetchine, was the hostess of a famous nineteenth-century Parisian
salon. A Russian emigre, Svechina moved to France with her husband
in 1816. She had recently converted to Roman Catholicism, and the
salon she opened acquired a distinctly religious character. It
quickly became one of the most popular salons in Paris and was a
meeting place for the French intellectual Catholic elite and
members of the Liberal Catholic movement. As a salonniere, Svechina
developed close friendships with some of the most noted public
figures in the Liberal Catholic movement. Her involvement with her
guests went deeper than the typical salonniere's. She was a mentor,
spiritual counselor, and intellectual advisor to many distinguished
Parisian men and women, and her influence extended beyond the walls
of her salon into the public world of politics and ideas. In this
fascinating biography, Tatyana Bakhmetyeva seeks to understand the
creative process that informed Svechina's life and examines her
subject in the context of nineteenth-century thought and letters.
It will appeal to educated readers interested in European and
Russian history, the history of Catholicism, and women's history.
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