Transgressive women in modern Russian and East European cultures : from the bad to the blasphemous /

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Imprint:	New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. ©2017
Description:	x, 216 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge research in gender and history ; 26 Routledge research in gender and history ; 26.
Subject:	Sex role -- Russia (Federation) Sex role -- Europe, Eastern. Women artists -- Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions. Women artists -- Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions. Women political activists -- Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions. Women political activists -- Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions. Sex role in art. Sex role in literature. Sex role. Sex role in art. Sex role in literature. Social conditions. Women artists -- Social conditions. Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991- Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 1989- Europe, Eastern. Russia (Federation)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10907072

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Other authors / contributors:	Hashamova, Yana, editor. Holmgren, Beth, 1955- editor. Lipovet︠s︡kiĭ, M. N. (Mark Naumovich), editor.
ISBN:	9781138955578 1138955574 9781315666259
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book brings together groundbreaking analyses of the various ways female artists and activists in Russia, Poland, and the Balkans dare to behave badly, according to extant social and political norms. The chapters range in focus from traditional actresses on stage and screen to feminist activists in street theater and political organizations"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Online version: Transgressive women in modern Russian and East European cultures. New York : Routledge, 2017 9781315666259

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Yana Hashamova, Beth Holmgren and Mark Lipovetsky
Section One. Performing bad behavior
From the legs up : the rise and retreat of the chorus girl in interwar Poland / Beth Holmgren
Un/taming the unruly woman : from melodramatic containment to carnivalistic utopia / Elena Prokhorova and Alexander Prokhorov
Performing history as a story : Faina Ranevskaia and the art of remembering / Marina Balina
The gesture of alterity : Renata Litvinova and the mediation of contemporary Russian sensibility / Vlad Strukov
Section Two. Committing sacrilege
Talking back and more : women's subversive behavior in Bulgarian and Bosnian films / Yana Hashamova
"How long can you go crushing bones, I ask you?" : the "bad mother" in Liudmila Petrushevskaia's The time: Night / Mark Lipovetsky and Tatiana Mikhailova
Women who eat too much : consuming female bodies in Polish cinema / Elzbieta Ostrowska
Bad mothers in Russian children's literature after 1991 : alcoholism, neglect, and the problem of post-socialist realism / Andrea Lanoux
Section Three. Politicizing bad behavior
Femen, a litmus / Jessica Zychowicz
Beating around the bush : Pussy Riot and the anatomy of the body politic / Eliot Borenstein
Bad girls, apocalyptic beasts, redemption : a tribute to Helena Goscilo / Nadezhda Azhgikhina and Irina Sandomirskaia.

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