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RUSS257
Women in Russia: 1825-1997
RUSS257 FA
Crosslistings: WMST246
Not Currently Offered
This course studies how women are represented in Russian
literature (mostly written by men) in the 19th and 20th
centuries; changing roles of women in elite Russian society,
including women's roles in politics; the representation of
women in political-philosophical discourse of men and women
in the decades just before and after the Russian Revolution;
the emergence of women as leading writers (Akhmatova,
Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam) in the early decades of the 20th
century; 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
Last Updated on MAR-22-1999
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