| An Improper Profession: Women, Gender, and Journalism in Late Imperial Russia Contributor(s): Norton, Barbara T. (Editor), Gheith, Jehanne M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0822325853 ISBN-13: 9780822325857 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $27.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2001 Annotation: "A major contribution to the field of Slavic studies. A work such as this gives scholars a place from which we can begin to rewrite and reconstruct women's role in Russian politics and culture in prerevolutionary times. This is a prodigious work of scholarship."-- Adele Barker, editor of "Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society since Gorbachev" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - Social Science | Women's Studies - Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism |
| Dewey: 070.082 |
| LCCN: 00046259 |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.06" W x 9.22" (1.24 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Journalism has long been a major factor in defining the opinions of Russia's literate classes. Although women participated in nearly every aspect of the journalistic process during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, female editors, publishers, and writers have been consistently omitted from the history of journalism in Imperial Russia. An Improper Profession offers a more complete and accurate picture of this history by examining the work of these under-appreciated professionals and showing how their involvement helped to formulate public opinion. In this collection, contributors explore how early women journalists contributed to changing cultural understandings of women's roles, as well as how class and gender politics meshed in the work of particular individuals. They also examine how female journalists adapted to--or challenged--censorship as political structures in Russia shifted. Over the course of this volume, contributors discuss the attitudes of female Russian journalists toward socialism, Russian nationalism, anti-Semitism, women's rights, and suffrage. Covering the period from the early 1800s to 1917, this collection includes essays that draw from archival as well as published materials and that range from biography to literary and historical analysis of journalistic diaries. By disrupting conventional ideas about journalism and gender in late Imperial Russia, An Improper Profession should be of vital interest to scholars of women's history, journalism, and Russian history. Contributors. Linda Harriet Edmondson, June Pachuta Farris, Jehanne M Gheith, Adele Lindenmeyr, Carolyn Marks, Barbara T. Norton, Miranda Beaven Remnek, Christine Ruane, Rochelle Ruthchild, Mary Zirin |