Russian Masculinities iIn History and Culture

by Clements, Barbara Evans; Friedman, Rebecca; Healey, Dan

• ISBN13: 9780333945445
• ISBN10: 0333945441
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-20
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Peasant patriarchs, aristocratic dandies, anxious bureaucrats, workers seeking father-figures, and promiscuous bathhouse attendants populate this volume. Its essays examine how ideals of manliness intersected with historical developments, the formation of national identities, and changing definitions of intimacy. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of gender theory and Russian theory alike.

Author Biography

Barbara Evans Clements is Professor of History Emeritus, University of Akron, Washington.

Rebecca Friedman is Assistant Professor of History, Florida International University, Miami.

Dan Healey is Lecturer in Russian History, University of Wales Swansea, United Kingdom

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Notes on the Contributors	viii
Introduction	1	(14)
Barbara Evans Clements
`What's Love Got to Do With It?': Changing Models of Masculinity in Muscovite and Petrine Russia	15	(18)
Nancy Shields Kollmann
From Boys to Men: Manhood in the Nicholaevan University	33	(18)
Rebecca Friedman
Russian Dandyism: Constructing a Man of Fashion	51	(25)
Olga Vainshtein
Masculinity in Late-Imperial Russian Peasant Society	76	(18)
Christine D. Worobec
Masculinity in Transition: Peasant Migrants to Late-Imperial St Petersburg	94	(19)
S. A. Smith
Marriage and Masculinity in Late-Imperial Russia: the 'Hard Cases'	113	(18)
Barbara Alpern Engel
The Education of the Will: Advice Literature, Zakal, and Manliness in Early-Twentieth-Century Russia	131	(21)
Catriona Kelly
The Disappearance of the Russian Queen, or How the Soviet Closet Was Born	152	(20)
Dan Healey
Masculinity and Heroism in Imperial and Soviet Military-Patriotic Cultures	172	(22)
Karen Petrone
Socialism in One Gender: Masculine Values in the Stalin Revolution	194	(16)
Thomas G. Schrand
`If You Want to Be Like Me, Train!': the Contradictions of Soviet Masculinity	210	(13)
Julie Gilmour
Barbara Evans Clements
Conclusions	223	(13)
Rebecca Friedman
Dan Healey
Index	236