Russia ∗ Women ∗ Culture

Introduction by Helena Goscilo and Beth Holmgren Part I: Spiritual Facilitations 1. The Second Fantasy Mother, or All Baths Are WomenOs BathsNNancy Condee 2. The Ritual Fabrics of Russian Village WomenNMary B. Kelly Part II: Body Works 3. Keeping A-breast of the Waist-land: WomenOs Fashion in Early-Nineteenth-Century RussiaNHelena Goscilo 4. Female Fashion, Soviet Style: Bodies of IdeologyNOlOga Vainshtein 5. Getting under Their Skin: The Beauty Salon in Russian WomenO LivesNNadezhda Azhgikhina and Helena Goscilo Part III: Domestications 6. Flirting with Words: Domestic Albums, 1770ETH1840NGitta Hammarberg 7. Domestic Porkbarreling in Nineteenth-Century Russia or Who Holds the Keys to the Larder?NDarra Goldstein 8. Dirty Women: Cultural Connotations of Cleanliness in Soviet RussiaNNadya Peterson Part IV: Performing Arts 9. Women on the Verge of a New Language: Russian Salon Hostesses in the First Half of the Nineteenth CenturyNLina Bernstein 10. Stepping Out/Going Under: Women in RussiaOs Twentieth-Century SalonsNBeth Holmgren 11. Pleasure, Danger, and the Dance: Nineteenth-Century Russian VariationsNStephanie Sandler 12. OThe IncomparableO Anastasiia VialOtseva and the Culture of PersonalityNLouise McReynolds Part V: Class Acts 13. Gendering the Icon: Marketing Women Writers in Fin de Si cle RussiaNBeth Holmgren 14. Handicrafts and Creative Freedom: Russian WomenOs ArtNAlison Hilton Contributors Index