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Article: Women and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Russia.(Book Review)
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- Journal of European Studies
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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Women and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Russia. Edited by Wendy Rosslyn. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. 283. 45.00 [pounds sterling]
One of the main theses of Rosslyn's latest project in the field of gender studies is the belief that we have to look at the 'long' eighteenth century--the period 1706-1825--to retrace the emergence of social trends eventually leading to women's emancipation in Russia.
Secondly, and most notably, the volume aims to fill a gap in the chronology of the otherwise flourishing scholarship devoted to Russian women by focusing on a century that, for a variety of reasons, has been under-researched. As the editor points out in her ...