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Author Mondry, Henrietta

Title Pure, strong and sexless : the peasant woman's body and Gleb Uspensky / Henrietta Mondry
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; v. 43
Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; v. 43
Contents Table of contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 "Daydreams": the quest for social gender changes or a new type of beauty?; Chapter 2 "In a Woman's Position": truncated sexuality in young women and teenage boys; Chapter 3 How 'straight' is the Venus de Milo? Shaping gender in stone sculpture; Chapter 4 "A Good Russian type": in search of a new masculinity; Chapter 5 Peasant sexuality and demonic possession; Chapter 6 "She Stopped!": moral rebirth through hard labor; Chapter 7 Children: necessary evil or product of divine will?; Chapter 8 The sacred egg: a symbol of human procreation
Summary Pure, Strong and Sexless explores the representation of gender and sexuality of peasant women in turn of the century Russian culture through the writings of populist writer Gleb Uspensky. Uspensky's numerous works address a range of issues related to sexuality, including infanticide, abortion, prostitution, adultery and venereal disease. This is the first comprehensive study of populist's fantasies in regard to the peasant woman's body as a non-sexed utopian body within Russian fin-de-siecle sexual discourse. Included in this book is the first English translation of the diary of Uspensky's psy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-284) and index
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Subject Uspenskiĭ, Gleb Ivanovich, 1843-1902 -- Criticism and interpretation
Uspenskiĭ, Gleb Ivanovich, 1843-1902 -- Views on sex
SUBJECT Uspenskiĭ, Gleb Ivanovich, 1843-1902 fast
Subject Women peasants -- Russia
Women -- Russia -- 19th century
Peasants -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Peasants
Sex
Women
Women peasants
Boerinnen.
Vrouwelijk lichaam.
Schizofrenie.
Russia
Genre/Form History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 142941331X
9781429413312