| Russia - Women - Culture Contributor(s): Goscilo, Helena (Editor), Holmgren, Beth (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0253210445 ISBN-13: 9780253210449 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1996 Annotation: This volume examines areas of cultural production that have offered Russian women new freedoms since the nineteenth century. Key aspects of Russian culture that have been systematically ignored are foregrounded here: Russian women's development of 'popular' culture and their ingenious reinventions of 'high' literature. The essays analyze women's creativity of every type--their products, performances, and collaborative exchanges--in sites that range from the bathhouse to the ballroom. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 947.07 |
| LCCN: 95038295 |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6.17" W x 9.24" (1.46 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume examines areas of cultural production that have offered Russian women new freedoms and have opened commercial and artistic possibilities to them since the 19th century. Key aspects of Russian culture that have been systematically ignored are foregrounded here: Russian women's development of popular culture and their ingenious reinventions of high literature. The essays analyze women's creativity of every type--their products, performances, and collaborative exchanges--in sites that range from the bath-house to the ballroom. Contributors are Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Lina Bernstein, Nancy Condee, Darra Goldstein, Helena Goscilo, Gitta Hammarberg, Alison Hilton, Beth Holmgren, Mary B. Kelly, Louise McReynolds, Nadya L. Peterson, Stephanie Sandler, and Ol'ga Vainshtein. |
