Description
Book SynopsisCombining concepts and methodologies from anthropology, history, linguistics, literature, music, cultural studies, and film studies, this collection of essays addresses issues crucial to gender and national identity in Russia since the October Revolution of 1917. It is useful for students in the fields of gender studies and Russian history.
Trade ReviewThis excellent collection offers one of the first sustained discussions of the fertile intersection of gender and nation... essential for any student of twentieth-century Russian cultural history.
-- Michael Gorham, author of
Speaking in Soviet TonguesValuable.... All ten essays in the collection represent impressive and original scholarship, and there are some exceptionally interesting and well-written contributions.
* CANADIAN SLAVONIC PAPERS *
An important, well-organized, and focused collection of essays that explores the complex relationship of gender and national identity in Russia.
* The Russian Review *
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Introduction: Lost in the Myths
Helena Goscilo and Andrea Lanoux
Chapter 1: National, Cultural, and Gender Identity in the Russian Language
Valentina Zaitseva
Chapter 2: Widowhood as Genre and Profession à la Russe: Nation, Shadow, Curator, and Publicity Agent
Helena Goscilo
Chapter 3: Mothers of Communists: Women Revolutionaries and the Construction of a Soviet Identity
Elizabeth Jones Hemenway
Chapter 4: Forging Soviet Masculinity in Nikolai Ekk's The Road to Life
Lilya Kaganovsky
Chapter 5: Reflecting Individual and Collective Identities: Songs of World War II
Suzanne Ament
Chapter 6: The Post-Utopian Body Politic: Masculinity and the Crisis of National Identity in Brezhnev-Era TV Miniseries
Elena Prokhorova
Chapter 7: From "Demographic Crisis" to "Dying Nation": The Politics of Language and Reproduction in Russia
Michele Rivkin-Fish
Chapter 8: Selling Russia: Prostitution, Masculinity, and Metaphors of Nationalism after Perestroika
Eliot Borenstein
Chapter 9: Castrated Patriarchy, Violence, and Gender Hierarchies in Post-Soviet Film
Yana Hashamova
Chapter 10: Raising a Pink Flag: The Reconstruction of Russian Gay Identity in the Shadow of Russian Nationalism
Luc Beaudoin
