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Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Combining concepts and methodologies from anthropology, history, linguistics, literature, music, cultural studies, and film studies, this collection of ten original essays addresses issues crucial to gender and national identity in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 to the present. Prefaced by an introduction on Russian cultural myths grounded in gender difference, the essays shed new light on such topics as national, cultural, and gender identity in the Russian language; typecasting of women revolutionaries; soviet masculinity in Stalin-era film; and prostitution during and after perestroika.Collectively, these interdisciplinary essays explore how traditional gender inequities influenced the social processes of nation building in Russia and how men and women responded to those developments. Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture offers fresh insights to students and scholars in the fields of gender studies, nationhood studies, and Russian history, literature, and culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2006-05-09
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Antal sidor267
FörlagCornell University Press
ISBN9780875806099

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Table of ContentsIntroduction: Lost in the MythsHelena Goscilo and Andrea LanouxChapter 1: National, Cultural, and Gender Identity in the Russian LanguageValentina ZaitsevaChapter 2: Widowhood as Genre and Profession à la Russe: Nation, Shadow, Curator, and Publicity AgentHelena GosciloChapter 3: Mothers of Communists: Women Revolutionaries and the Construction of a Soviet IdentityElizabeth Jones HemenwayChapter 4: Forging Soviet Masculinity in Nikolai Ekk's The Road to LifeLilya KaganovskyChapter 5: Reflecting Individual and Collective Identities: Songs of World War IISuzanne AmentChapter 6: The Post-Utopian Body Politic: Masculinity and the Crisis of National Identity in Brezhnev-Era TV MiniseriesElena ProkhorovaChapter 7: From "Demographic Crisis" to "Dying Nation": The Politics of Language and Reproduction in RussiaMichele Rivkin-FishChapter 8: Selling Russia: Prostitution, Masculinity, and Metaphors of Nationalism after PerestroikaEliot BorensteinChapter 9: Castrated Patriarchy, Violence, and Gender Hierarchies in Post-Soviet FilmYana HashamovaChapter 10: Raising a Pink Flag: The Reconstruction of Russian Gay Identity in the Shadow of Russian NationalismLuc Beaudoin

This 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 Tongues Valuable.... 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)