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This title was first published in 2003. Although the topic of gender has been comparatively well explored with respect to Russia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the eighteenth century (1700-1825) is still under-researched. This collection of essays by authorities in the field from the USA, Russia, and Western Europe focuses on the social history and culture both of noblewomen and of lower-class women, about whom relatively little is currently known. This is the first collection of essays on women in eighteenth-century Russia. Much of the research is based on women's own evidence and on archival documents. The volume opens with a survey of recent research in this area and with discussions of male constructions of femininity at the beginning and end of the century. Women's culture is explored through women's own accounts of their education, and studies of their letters and literary works. Particular attention is paid to the direction of their reading by mentors and to the journals provided for women by male writers. Special topics include dress and cosmetics, arrangements for the defence of privacy, dowries, and irregular marital unions. Three essays uncover evidence about the lives of lower-class women, their involvement with the courts, and their experience of employment.
Contents
ContentsWendy Rosslyn; 'The crown of maidenly honour and virtue': redefining femininity in Peter I's Russia, Lindsey Hughes; Feminisation as functionalisation: the presentation of femininity by the sentimentalist man, Carolin Heyder and Arja Rosenholm; Cosmetics - or dying to overcome nature in an age of art and artifice, Helena Goscilo; Love and the lap-dog, Semeon Ekshtut; Russian noblewomen's education in the home as revealed in late 18th- and early 19th-century memoirs, Natal'ia L. Pushkareva: Imaginary world: reading in the lives of Russian provincial noblewomen (1750-1825), Olga E. Glagoleva; Women's letters and Russian noble culture of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Anna Belova; Observations on the life and work of Elizaveta Kheraskova (1737-1809), Frank GApfert; Women, critics, and women critics in early Russian women's journals; Gitta Hammarberg; From maintenance to entitlement: defining the dowry in 18th-century Russia, Michelle Lamarche Marrese; Marriage, church, and community in 18th-century St Petersburg, Robin Bisha; Episodes from women's lives in the reign of Peter I, Ol'ga Kosheleva; Female employees in the Russian Imperial Theatres (1785-1825), Wendy Rosslyn; Index.
