{"product_id":"gender-and-national-identity-in-twentieth-century-russian-culture-paperback-softback-9780875806099","title":"Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture (Paperback \/ softback) 9780875806099","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGender and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHelena Goscilo (Edited by), Andrea Lanoux (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780875806099\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 9 May 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e267 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e - Michael Gorham, author of \u003ci\u003eSpeaking in Soviet Tongues\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003eValuable.... All ten essays in the collection represent impressive and original scholarship, and there are some exceptionally interesting and well-written contributions.\u003c\/p\u003e (CANADIAN SLAVONIC PAPERS) \u003cp\u003eAn important, well-organized, and focused collection of essays that explores the complex relationship of gender and national identity in Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e (The Russian Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCollectively, 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. \u003ci\u003eGender and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture\u003c\/i\u003e offers fresh insights to students and scholars in the fields of gender studies, nationhood studies, and Russian history, literature, and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Lost in the Myths\u003cbr\u003e Helena Goscilo and Andrea Lanoux\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: National, Cultural, and Gender Identity in the Russian Language\u003cbr\u003e Valentina Zaitseva\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Widowhood as Genre and Profession à la Russe: Nation, Shadow, Curator, and Publicity Agent\u003cbr\u003e Helena Goscilo\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Mothers of Communists: Women Revolutionaries and the Construction of a Soviet Identity\u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth Jones Hemenway\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Forging Soviet Masculinity in Nikolai Ekk's The Road to Life\u003cbr\u003e Lilya Kaganovsky\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Reflecting Individual and Collective Identities: Songs of World War II\u003cbr\u003e Suzanne Ament\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: The Post-Utopian Body Politic: Masculinity and the Crisis of National Identity in Brezhnev-Era TV Miniseries\u003cbr\u003e Elena Prokhorova\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: From \"Demographic Crisis\" to \"Dying Nation\": The Politics of Language and Reproduction in Russia\u003cbr\u003e Michele Rivkin-Fish\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: Selling Russia: Prostitution, Masculinity, and Metaphors of Nationalism after Perestroika\u003cbr\u003e Eliot Borenstein\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: Castrated Patriarchy, Violence, and Gender Hierarchies in Post-Soviet Film\u003cbr\u003e Yana Hashamova\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10: Raising a Pink Flag: The Reconstruction of Russian Gay Identity in the Shadow of Russian Nationalism\u003cbr\u003e Luc Beaudoin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52584758575384,"sku":"9780875806099","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/gender-and-national-identity-in-twentieth-century-russian-culture-paperback-softback-9780875806099","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}