ISBN:
9781563247972
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (337 p)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Pushkareva, Natalia Women in Russian History: From the Tenth to the Twentieth Century
DDC:
305.4/0947
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Author's and Translator's Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Warriors, Regents, and Scholars: The Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries -- Princesses in Their Own Right -- Before and After the Wedding -- ""If Anyone Has a Daughter"" -- A Woman's Calling Card -- Chapter 2. The Terem and Beyond: Women in Muscovy -- From Ruler to Regent -- Who Shall Find a Virtuous Woman? -- A Woman's Honor -- ""Painted Beauties"" -- Chapter 3. Empresses and Diarists: Women in the Enlightenment
Abstract:
Out of the Terem, Onto the Throne -- Marriage for Love, or Money -- The Lesser Share -- Fashion and Tradition -- Chapter 4. The New Women of the New Epoch: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- The Many Roles of Women -- The Empress as Angel of Mercy -- Hostesses of Distinction -- Revolutionary Women -- Women in the Academy -- Writers and Poets -- The World of the Arts -- Lives of Toil and Leisure -- The ''Woman Question"" -- Crinolines and Sarafans -- Epilogue. Women in the Soviet Union and After: 1917 to the 1990s -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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