Women with a thirst for destruction
Subtitle: the bad mother in Russian culture
By: Jenny Kaminer
Series: Studies in Russian literature and theory; Studies in Russian literature and theory
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780810129467
Subjects: Motherhood in popular culture; Mothers in literature; Russian fiction; History and criticism
Other titles: Bad mother in Russian culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-193) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sacrifice subverted : the bad mothers of M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin and L.N. Tolstoy; title: "Her life's sacrifice" : the abandoning mother as positive role model in the Soviet 1920s; title: "Mother-destroyers" : the bad mother in the late-Soviet and post-Soviet era.