Unattainable Bride Russia: Gendering Nation, State, and Intelligentsia in Russian Intellectual Culture

by Ellen Rutten

Throughout the twentieth century and continuing today, personifications of Russia as a bride occur in a wide range of Russian texts and visual representations, from literature and political and philosophical treatises to cartoons and tattoos. Invariably, this metaphor functions in the context of a political gender allegory, which represents the relationships between Russia, the intelligentsia, and the Russian state, as a competition of two male...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810126567
• ISBN13: 9780810126565
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.8"