This volume charts the changing aspects of gender in Russia's cultural and social history from the late seventeenth century to the Stalinist era and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The works, while focusing on women as a primary subject, highlight in particular gender difference, the construction of both femininity and masculinity in a culture that has undergone major transformation and disruptions over the period of three centuries.

Notes on the Contributors Introduction; L.Edmondson Educating Tat'yana: Manners, Motherhood and Moral Education (Vospitanie), 1760-1840; C.Kelly Gender and Salvation: Representations of Difference in Old Believer Writings from the Late Seventeenth Century to the 1820s; I.K.Paert A Crocodile in Flannel or a Dancing Monkey: the Image of the Russian Woman Writer, 1790-1850; J.Andrew Mariya Vernadskaya: Missionary of 'Scientific Femininity'; A.Rosenholm Belles-lettres with a Touch of Filth : On the Contemporary Reception of Leonid Andreev's Stories, The Abyss and In the Fog; P.U.Møller Unruly Identities: Soviet Psychiatry Confronts the 'Female Homosexual' of the 1920s; D.Healey Biding Their Time: Women Workers and the Regulation of Hours of Employment in the 1920s; M.Ilic Rationality versus Romanticism: Representations of Women in the Stalinist Press; L.Attwood Complex 'Realities' of 'New' Women in the 1930s: Assertive, Superior, Belittled and Beaten; M.Buckley The Heirs of Pasha: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Woman Tractor Driver; S.Bridger Index

JOE ANDREW Professor of Russian Literature, Keele University
LYNNE ATTWOOD Senior Lecturer in Russian Studies, University of Manchester
SUE BRIDGER Reader in Russian Studies, University of Bradford
MARY BUCKLEY Professor of Political at Royal Holloway, University of London
DAN HEALEY Lecturer in Russian History, University of Swansea
MELANIE ILIC Senior Lecturer, Soviet History and Women's Studies, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education and Research Fellow, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham
CATRIONA KELLY Reader in Russian, New College, University of Oxford
IRINA KOROVUSHKINA PAERT Simon Research Fellow, University of Manchester
PETER ULF MØLLER Professor of Russian, University of Aarhus
ARJA ROSENHOLM Academic Assistant in Slavonic Languages, University of Tampere, Finland