Chapter One. Coup d’état as Cross-dressing
Journal: Academic Studies Press eBooks
Year: 2019

T he eighteenth century was, for the most part, a time of female C h a p t e r O n e Traditional Russian ideology, influenced by the Russian Orthodox Church, interpreted the "man-woman" opposition to be one of "sacred-profane." Women were often assigned pagan attributes and considered to be dependent and subordinate creatures. 4 Church and society both cultivated the concept of a "blessed womb" and assigned to royal women the task of producing a male heir. 5 An influential theologian, statesman,