Mothers and Daughters: Women of the Intelligentsia in Nineteenth-Century Russia

by Barbara Alpern Engel

Book Overview

Professor Engel presents a study of the social and cultural origins of female radicalism in nineteenth-century Russia. She examines the forces that prompted hundreds of women to rebel against their family roles, the factors that shaped their radical activity and thought, and the ways in which the circumstances of their rebellion influenced their attitudes toward private as well as public life. During this period, Russian women were more numerous and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521313015
• ISBN13: 9780521313018
• Release Date: May 1985
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Mothers and Daughters: Women of the Intelligenstia in Nineteenth-Century Russia

This book is a great examination of the role of women in revolutionary Russia and of their need for liberation and how they brought that about.