Hashamova / Holmgren / Lipovetsky Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures

From the Bad to the Blasphemous
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-35456-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 228 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Gender and History

The cultural "crimes" and harsh state punishment of Pussy Riot, the most famous Russian feminist collective to date, prompt this volume's retrospective investigations into why, how, and to what effect women have been perceived to "behave badly" in Russia, Poland, and the Balkans. Arguing against the widespread perception of Slavic cultures as overwhelmingly patriarchal and women as complicit in their own repression, this volume undertakes the historicization of proto-feminist and feminist transgression in these cultures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hashamova, Yana

Holmgren, Beth

Lipovetsky, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Presuming Permission to Act Out 1. From the Legs Up: The Fall and Rise of the Chorus Girl in Interwar Poland Beth Holmgren 2. Woman on Top: Gendered Agency on the Soviet and Post-Soviet Screen Alexander Prokhorov and Elena Prokhorov 3. Waiting to Exhale: Female Rebels in Soviet Entertainment Marina Balina 4. The Gesture of Alterity: Renata Litvinova and the Mediation of Post-Soviet Sensibility Vlad Strukov Part 2: Playing with Loaded Archetypes 5. Talking Back and More: Women’s Subversive Behavior in Bulgarian and Bosnian Films Yana Hashamova 6. Women Who Eat Too Much: Consuming Female Bodies in Polish Cinema Elzbieta Ostrowska 7. "How Long Can You Go Crushing Bones, I Ask You?": The "Bad Mother" in Liudmila Petrushevskaya’s Time Night Mark Lipovetsky and Tatiana Mikhailova 8. Bad Mothers in Russian Children’s Literature After 1991: Alcoholism, Neglect, and the Problem of Post-Socialist "Realism" Andrea Lanoux Part 3: Contextualizing "Pussy Riot" 9. Beating around the Bush: Pussy Riot and the Anatomy of the Body Politic Eliot Borenstein 10. Russian Women’s Activism from Dissidence to "Hooliganism": A Dialogue Irina Sandomirskaia and Nadezhda Azhgikhina

Über Autor(innen)

Yana Hashamova is Associate Professor and chair in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures and Director of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at Ohio State University.

Beth Holmgren is Professor of Slavic and Eurasian studies and Theater Studies, and Slavic and Eurasian studies Department Chair at Duke University.

Mark Lipovetsky is Professor of Russian Studies at the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Colorado-Boulder.