Страсть: Женское тело и женская сексуальность в России

by Ирина Жеребкина

This book traces the history of the women’s issue, or women subjectivation in Russian culture in the frame of modern feminist theories. How did Russian "feminists before the feminist movement" dealt with and discuss woman’s sexuality and body in their own words? Among the characters of this book are famous Russian Dostoevskii's lover Apollinariia Suslova, artist and writer Mariia Bashkirtseva, terrorist Vera Zasulich, poet Marina Tsvetaeva, philologists Lidiia Ginzburg and Emma Gershtein, and many others. The author analyzes repressive discourse and the search for feminine originality, and defines it as a passion. Zherebkina describes the results of continuing search for women's self-identity and their own list of commandments in exercising their freedom.

335 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001