Peasant patriarchs, aristocratic dandies, anxious bureaucrats, workers seeking father-figures, and promiscuous bathhouse attendants populate this volume. Its essays examine how ideals of manliness intersected with historical developments, the formation of national identities, and changing definitions of intimacy. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of gender theory and Russian theory alike.
Author(s): Barbara Evans Clements, Rebecca Friedman, Dan Healey
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 255
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Notes on the Contributors......Page 9
1 Introduction......Page 12
2 ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It?’: Changing Models of Masculinity in Muscovite and Petrine Russia......Page 26
3 From Boys to Men: Manhood in the Nicholaevan University......Page 44
4 Russian Dandyism: Constructing a Man of Fashion......Page 62
5 Masculinity in Late-Imperial Russian Peasant Society......Page 87
6 Masculinity in Transition: Peasant Migrants to Late-Imperial St Petersburg......Page 105
7 Marriage and Masculinity in Late-Imperial Russia: the ‘Hard Cases’......Page 124
8 The Education of the Will: Advice Literature, Zakal, and Manliness in Early-Twentieth-Century Russia......Page 142
9 The Disappearance of the Russian Queen, or How the Soviet Closet Was Born......Page 163
10 Masculinity and Heroism in Imperial and Soviet Military-Patriotic Cultures......Page 183
11 Socialism in One Gender: Masculine Values in the Stalin Revolution......Page 205
12 ‘If You Want to Be Like Me, Train!’: the Contradictions of Soviet Masculinity......Page 221
13 Conclusions......Page 234
C......Page 247
G......Page 248
L......Page 249
O......Page 250
S......Page 251
W......Page 252
Z......Page 253
