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| Acknowledgments | ||
| List of Translators | ||
| Note on Transliteration and Dates | ||
| Map | ||
| Timeline | ||
| Abbreviations | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Defining Ideals | 17 |
| Eighteenth-Century Sermons | 21 | |
| St. Tikhon, Christian Family Duties | 23 | |
| Maria Korsini, The Ideal Family | 26 | |
| Vissarion Belinskii, Review of A Victim | 28 | |
| Nikolai Pirogov, Questions of Life | 33 | |
| Maria Vernadskaia, Destiny of Women | 34 | |
| Evgenia Tur versus Natalia Grot, "The" Russian Woman | 42 | |
| Ariadna Tyrkova, The Emancipation of Women | 51 | |
| 2 | Family Life | 58 |
| Princess Dashkova's Dowry | 60 | |
| Synod Decree on Underage Marriages | 63 | |
| Varvara Tatishcheva, From 1797, A Journal | 65 | |
| Glafira Rzhevskaia, Memoirs | 69 | |
| Maria Ivankova, Letter to Her Mother | 71 | |
| Ekaterina Dashkova, Letter to Her Daughter | 73 | |
| Diary of a Young Noblewoman, on Her Mother | 75 | |
| Aleksandra Levshina Mourns Her Sister | 77 | |
| Anna Volkova, Recollections of Childhood | 78 | |
| Aleksandra Efimenko, On Peasant Women's Lives | 81 | |
| Female Poverty | 89 | |
| Evdokiia Rostopchina, The Forced Marriage | 97 | |
| Divorce | 100 | |
| 3 | Sexuality | 108 |
| Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Noblewoman | 110 | |
| Regulating Sexuality | 122 | |
| Music Hall Songs | 140 | |
| Girlfriends: Tsvetaeva to Parnok | 143 | |
| 4 | Work and Schooling | 159 |
| The Empress and the Philosopher: Catherine II - Voltaire Correspondence | 165 | |
| The Institutka and the Empress: Levshina - Catherine II Correspondence | 168 | |
| Fathers and Daughters | 173 | |
| Private Schooling | 175 | |
| State Schooling: Regulations and Experience | 180 | |
| Admission to Universities | 192 | |
| Medical Schooling and Practice | 193 | |
| Prostitution as a Profession: Speech of Aleksandra Dementeva | 199 | |
| Peasant Women's Work | 205 | |
| Property Management | 206 | |
| The Woman Writer | 209 | |
| Women and the Military | 215 | |
| 5 | Religion, Piety, and Spiritual Life | 232 |
| The Religious Rituals of Daily Life | 235 | |
| Anna Labzina, Memoirs | 243 | |
| Maria Korsini, Thoughts and Tales Dedicated to Youth | 248 | |
| Diary of a Young Noblewoman, Doubts about Religion | 252 | |
| Popular Piety and Religious Dissent | 253 | |
| Monasticism | 269 | |
| Liudmila Gerasimova, The Office of Deaconess: Letter to the Russian Orthodox Church Council of 1917-1918 | 283 | |
| 6 | Opposition and Activism | 299 |
| Irina Vorontsova, Serf Women's Resistance: The Countess's Order | 302 | |
| Marko Vovchok, Sasha | 303 | |
| Elena Likhacheva, Letter to the Tsar | 319 | |
| Anna Kalmanovich, The Women's Movement and Its Mission: Speech to the Women's Congress 1908 | 321 | |
| Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik, First Ball | 324 | |
| Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaia, Women Supporting Women in Opposition: Reminiscences of Natalia Armfeldt | 335 | |
| Peasant Women Protest: Police Reports | 339 | |
| Vera Karelina, Working Women in the Gapon Assembly: Memoirs | 346 | |
| Civic Activism | 353 | |
| Glossary | 377 | |
| Suggested English-Language Readings | 381 | |
| Index | 395 |
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Cynthia Lindell
reviewed Russian Women, 1698-1917: Experience and Expression, An anthology of Soucrces on May 07, 2014
Russian Women, 1698-1917
What I like the most about the books of Isabella L. Bird is the candor and the honesty in which she describes pretty much everything around her. I don't know whether she really meant her memoirs to be read only by some people she was requested to write by, or whether this was just some kind of "publishing escamotage". Anyway, she narrates in accordance to her cultural (British, educated) and religious (Anglican, I think) views, and doesn't give a second thought about saying that someone she encountered was ugly, stupid, uncivilized, et cetera.
I don't know whether it was commonplace at that time, to write this way. Maybe it was customary, or maybe it wasn't, and she was nonetheless speaking her mind. It's absurd how freedom of speech is contaminated by political correctedness nowadays; people "freely" use all kinds of cursory language and grammatically awful constructions because they feel entitled to, while if someone voices an opinion that is "out of the norm", especially if non compliant to the views of over protected groups, her or she will certainly be subject to innumerable personal attacks. Such mudslingers don't even try to assume the viewpoint of the speaker, who must have some sort of reason in order to voice an impopular opinion. Aren't such personal attacks fundamentally against the concept of freedom of speech?
Back to the book, this was also particularly interesting among Isabella's, because it describes the seeds of the modern North American society. It is amazing how the culture of 150 years ago still lives today. For instance, how political parties try to get hold of the emotional side of voters, or how different religious denomination coexist because self-funded - and sometimes take wrong turns just to get followership and money, or again how practicality and substance is preferred over form and structure in relationships and formal exchanges among people. The pursuit of success even through the wrong means "as long as you don't get caught" was already commonplace at that time. Isabella also stresses how the structure of the US society in particular, from the Government to the media, was prone to the tyranny if the masses - which has in fact become reality with the passage of time. All is explained with a good dose of wit, as per her usual style.
The LibriVox edition is very clearly read, although it could use some more pauses between paragraphs.
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