Russia • Women • Culture

Introduction by Helena Goscilo and Beth Holmgren

Part I: Spiritual Facilitations
1. The Second Fantasy Mother, or All Baths Are Women's Baths—Nancy Condee
2. The Ritual Fabrics of Russian Village Women—Mary B. Kelly

Part II: Body Works
3. Keeping A-breast of the Waist-land: Women's Fashion in Early-Nineteenth-Century Russia—Helena Goscilo
4. Female Fashion, Soviet Style: Bodies of Ideology—Ol'ga Vainshtein
5. Getting under Their Skin: The Beauty Salon in Russian Women' Lives—Nadezhda Azhgikhina and Helena Goscilo

Part III: Domestications
6. Flirting with Words: Domestic Albums, 1770–1840—Gitta Hammarberg
7. Domestic Porkbarreling in Nineteenth-Century Russia or Who Holds the Keys to the Larder?—Darra Goldstein
8. Dirty Women: Cultural Connotations of Cleanliness in Soviet Russia—Nadya Peterson

Part IV: Performing Arts
9. Women on the Verge of a New Language: Russian Salon Hostesses in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century—Lina Bernstein
10. Stepping Out/Going Under: Women in Russia's Twentieth-Century Salons—Beth Holmgren
11. Pleasure, Danger, and the Dance: Nineteenth-Century Russian Variations—Stephanie Sandler
12. "The Incomparable" Anastasiia Vial'tseva and the Culture of Personality—Louise McReynolds

Part V: Class Acts
13. Gendering the Icon: Marketing Women Writers in Fin de Siècle Russia—Beth Holmgren
14. Handicrafts and Creative Freedom: Russian Women's Art—Alison Hilton

Contributors
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