Pure, Strong and Sexless
Subtitle: The Peasant Woman's Body and Gleb Uspensky (Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics 43) (Studies in Slavic Literature & Poetics)
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: January 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9789042018280
Subjects: Women's studies; Social Science; Gender Studies; Sociology; Eastern Europe; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Eastern European; Russian & Former Soviet Union
First sentence: Within the study of the representation of peasant gender in Russia there is a clear area of neglect: the portrayal of peasant women's bodies in the work of the narodniki, or populist, writers.