Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture

Table of Contents
Introduction: Lost in the Myths
Helena Goscilo and Andrea Lanoux
Chapter 1: National, Cultural, and Gender Identity in the Russian Language
Valentina Zaitseva
Chapter 2: Widowhood as Genre and Profession à la Russe: Nation, Shadow, Curator, and Publicity Agent
Helena Goscilo
Chapter 3: Mothers of Communists: Women Revolutionaries and the Construction of a Soviet Identity
Elizabeth Jones Hemenway
Chapter 4: Forging Soviet Masculinity in Nikolai Ekk's The Road to Life
Lilya Kaganovsky
Chapter 5: Reflecting Individual and Collective Identities: Songs of World War II
Suzanne Ament
Chapter 6: The Post-Utopian Body Politic: Masculinity and the Crisis of National Identity in Brezhnev-Era TV Miniseries
Elena Prokhorova
Chapter 7: From "Demographic Crisis" to "Dying Nation": The Politics of Language and Reproduction in Russia
Michele Rivkin-Fish
Chapter 8: Selling Russia: Prostitution, Masculinity, and Metaphors of Nationalism after Perestroika
Eliot Borenstein
Chapter 9: Castrated Patriarchy, Violence, and Gender Hierarchies in Post-Soviet Film
Yana Hashamova
Chapter 10: Raising a Pink Flag: The Reconstruction of Russian Gay Identity in the Shadow of Russian Nationalism
Luc Beaudoin