Only Among Women: Philosophies of Community in the Russian and Soviet Imagination, 1860-1940

by Anne Eakin Moss

Only Among Women examines idealized relationships between women in Russian literature and culture from the age of the classic Russian novel to socialist realism and Stalinist film. It reveals how the idea of a community of women--a social sphere ostensibly free from the taint of money, sex, or self-interest--originates in the classic Russian novel, fuels mystical notions of unity in turn-of-the-century modernism, and finally assumes a place...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810141027
• ISBN13: 9780810141025
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"