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WOMEN. HISTORY. SOCIETY:
COLLECTION OF RESEARCH PAPERS,
VOLUME 2
(edited by Valentina Uspenskaia), Tver, 2002. 320 p.
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SUMMARY
This volume is part and parcel of the Tver Center for Women's History and Gender Studies' project which aims
at incorporating women and gender studies into university curricula. The editor argues that neither further development
of courses related to women and gender studies nor the "injection" of gender approach to the traditional malestream social and humanitarian
knowledge are possible if they are not based on solid academic scholarship. Therefore, this collection of papers represents
the results of gender research conducted by scholars affiliated with Tver Center for Women's History
and Gender Studies at Tver State University. Contributors to the volume consider women not
as pure victims of the history of patriarchy but as independent agents and actors of civilization.
Thus the papers are grouped in two parts.
The first part focuses on introducing the gender approach to social sciences and humanities. The articles
embrace a broad range of topics including the institutionalization of gender approach within the official curriculum of
history departments, the social relation of the sexes: methodological implications of women's history, feminist critique of
modern sociological knowledge, Tver archives on modern Russian history as a resource for
women's studies, women's rights in academic discourse and educational process, the concept of matriarchy
in feminist prospective, and gender problems in anthropology of Nicholas Berdiaev (one of the Russian philosophers).
The second part of the volume contains papers describing and analyzing women's actions within different cultures,
time periods, and social structures. The articles include (but are not limited to)
such topics as gender analysis of medieval Chinese family, Chechen community, and "War and Peace" by Leo
Tolstoi, stories about Tver princesses and women's salons in Europe of XVII - XVIII centuries, modern
Russian and German women writers, women as professional in Fin-de-Siecle Germany, metamorphosis of the Russian
"baba" (a synonym to a "woman"), and problems of gender equality in Finland. The list of contributors includes
Russian (Moscow, St-Petersburg, Tver) and Finnish scholars.
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