Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700-1825

Introduction; A.Tosi PART I: WOMEN AND THE ARTS Signs from Empresses and Actresses: Women and Theatre in the Eighteenth Century; L.Donnels O'Malley Female Serfs in the Performing World; R.Stites Women and Literature, Women in Literature: Female Authors of Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century; A.Tosi Women's Travel and Travel Writing in Russia, 1700-1825; S.Dickinson The First Russian Women's Journals and the Construction of the Reader; G.Hammarberg PART II: WOMEN AND SOCIETY "Without Going to a Regular Court...": the Phenomenon of the 'Divorce Letter' in Petrine Russia; O.Kosheleva The Function of Fashion: Women and Clothing at the Russian Court (1700-62); P.Keenan Merchant Women in Business in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; G.Ul'ianova PART III: FEMININITY AND RELIGIOUS LIFE Sacralising Female Rule, 1725-61; G.Marker Female Orthodox Monasticism in Eighteenth-Century Imperial Russia: the Experience of Nizhnii Novgorod; W.G.Wagner Women with a Mission: British Female Evangelicals in the Russian Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century; W.Rosslyn Appendix: Select Bibliography (2001-2006): Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700-1825; W.Rosslyn