1st Edition

Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation

Edited By Peter I. Barta Copyright 2002
    364 Pages
    by Routledge

    362 Pages
    by Routledge

    Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation considers gender and sexuality in modern Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters look individually at gender and sexuality through history, art, folklore, philosophy or literature,but are also arranged into sections according to the arguments they develop. A number of chapters also consider Russia in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Thematic sections include:
    *Gender and Power
    *Gender and National Identity
    *Sexual Identity and Artistic Impression
    *Literary Discourse of Male and Female Sexualities
    *Sexuality and Literature in Contemporary Russian Society

    Introduction, I Gender and Power, II Gender and National Identity, III Sexual Identity and Artistic Expression, IV Literaray Discourses of Male and Female Sexualities, V Sexually and Literature in Contemporary Russian Society.

    Biography

    Peter I. Barta is Head of Russian Studies at the University of Surrey, UK.