Rina Lapidus is associate professor of comparative literature at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.

• Chapter 1 Table of ContentsChapter 2 DedicationChapter 3 Introduction: The Aim and Structure of the BookChapter 4 1. The Evolution of Attitudes toward Women in Russian LiteratureChapter 5 2. Spiritual and Physical Murder Between Man and Woman: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and ChekhovChapter 6 3. Woman as Sexual Predator: Tolstoy, Zoschenko, and TrifonovChapter 7 4. Woman's Infidelity as the Cause for Man's Devastation: Tolstoy v. Flaubert, Leskov, Turgenev, Kuprin, and ChekhovChapter 8 5. Anxiety about the Strong Woman: Turgenev, Leskov, BulgakovChapter 9 6. Surrogate for the Man-Woman Relations in the Post-War Soviet Literature: Vasilyiev, Grossman, and RasputinChapter 10 7. Eunuch as Hero in the Late-Soviet andPerestroika Literature: Dovlatov, Nagibin, and PolyakovChapter 11 8. Man as an Object in Literature by Women: Shcherbakvoa, Rubina, Ulitskaya, Petrushevskaya, and GrekovaChapter 12 Conclusion: Sex an an Animal Act beyond ComprehensionChapter 13 BibliographyChapter 14 Index

Lapidus admirably assembles a range of a material that works within her paradigm. While she treads familiar ground with her analysis of Anna Karenina, her treatment of Turgenev is more innovative....this volume helps to supplement the growing scholarship on gender and sexuality in Russian literature and will hopefully spur on further research in the field.