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RUSS257

Women in Russia: 1825-1997
RUSS257 FA

Crosslistings: WMST246
SectionClass Size*AvailableTimes
1 25 0 Times: .T.T... 10:00AM-11:20AM;

*The number of spaces listed as available is based on class seats open for the current phase of registration. Some seats may be taken in previous phases while others may be held out for subsequent phases of registration. (Last Updated on Wed Mar 4 05:01:03 EST 1998 )

This course studies: (1) how women are represented in Russian literature (mostly written by men) in the 19th and 20th centuries; (2) changing roles of women in elite Russian society, including women's roles in politics; (3) the representation of women in political-philosophical discourse of men and women in the decades just before and after the Russian Revolution; (4) the emergence of women as leading writers (Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam) in the early decades of the 20th century; (5) recent historical studies of the social and cultural conditions of non-elite Russian women.

MAJOR READINGS

Pushkin, QUEEN OF SPADES, CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER
Pavlova, DOUBLE LIFE
Herzen, WHO'S TO BLAME
Turgenev, FIRST LOVE
Ostrovsky, THE STORM
Dmitrieva, ROUND THE VILLAGES
Tolstoy, KREUTZER SONATA, FATHER SERGIUS
Chekhov, UNCLE VANYA, THREE SISTERS
Gorky, THE LOWER DEPTHS
Akhmatova, SELECTED POETRY
Tsvetaeva, SELECTED PROSE AND POETRY
Mandelshtam, HOPE AGAINST HOPE
Tolstaya, ON THE GOLDEN PORCH
Petrushevskaya, SELECTED PROSE AND DRAMA
Hansen and Liden, MOSCOW WOMEN
du Plexis-Gray, WALKING THE TIGHTROPE
Ransel, THE FAMILY IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA
Clements, RUSSIA'S WOMEN
Stites, THE WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT
Goscilo, LIVES IN TRANSIT

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

In-class mid-term and final exams; two short papers; one final paper.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA RUSS

Prerequisites: None

Section 01
White, D
Times: .T.T... 10:00AM-11:20AM;
Grading Mode: Mixed
Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 0, Jr: 0, So: 0, Fr: 1
No Major Preference Given

Last Updated on MAR-03-1998




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