Week 4: Imperial Usurpations--Women Outside Patriarchy

Sources

Catherine II, Memoirs of Catherine The Great. Edited by David Maroger. London, 1955.

Daskova, Ekaterina. The Memoirs of Princess Dashkov. Translated by Kyril Fitzlyon. London: John Calder, 1985.

Durova, Nadezhda. The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars. Translated and edited by Mary Fleming Zirin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. [Napoleonic wars, military].

Fitzlyon, Kyril, ed. & tr. Memoirs of Princess Dashkova. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.

Literary

Rosslyn, Wendy. "Conflicts Over Gender and Status in Early Nineteenth-century Russian Literature: the Case of Anna Bunina and Her Poem Padenie Faetona." in Marsh, Rosalind J., ed., Gender and Russian Literature: New Perspectives. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xvi, 353 p. [PG2997 .R86 1996]

Secondary

Alexander, John T. Catherine the Great: Life and Legend. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. xii, 418 p. [DK170 .A58 1989] ISBN: 0195061624 {Paperback $15.95} Availability: This item usually shipped within 2-3 days.

Bernstein, Laurie. "Yellow Tickets and State-Licensed Brothels: The Tsarist Goverment and Regulation of Urban Prostitution." In Health and Society in Revolutionary Russia, Susan Gross Solomon and John F. Hutchinson, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. xiv, 256 p. [RA418.3 .S65 H43 1990]

Bernstein, Laurie. Sonia's Daughters: Prostitutes and Their Regulation in Imperial Russia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xiii, 344 p. [HQ215 .B47 1995]

Bohuc, Rodney D. "Widows and the Russian Serf Community." In Clements, Barbara Evans et al. Russia's Women: Accomodation, Resistance, Transformation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xi, 300 p. [HQ1662 .R88 1991]

Costlow, Jane T., Stephanie Sandler, and Judith Vowles, eds. Sexuality and the Body in Russian Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. x, 357 p. [HQ18 .R9 S49 1993]

Curtiss, M. A. Forgotten Empress: Anna Ivanovna and Her Era, 1730-40. New York, 1974.

de Madriaga, Isabel. Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great. New Haven: , 1981

Dewey, H. W. and A. M. Kleimola. "Muted Eulogy: Women who Inspired Men in Medieval Rus" Russian History 10, pt. 2 (1983): 196-197.

Engelstein, Laura. "Gender and the Juridical Subject: Prostitution and Rape in 19th Century Russian Criminal Codes," Journal Of Modern History 60:3. 1988: 458-95.

Farnsworth, Beatrice. "The Soldatka: Folklore and Court Record." Slavic Review 49 (1990): 58-73.

Frank, Stephen P. "Popular Justice, Community and Culture among the Russian Peasantry." Russian Review 46 (July, 1987): [widows accused of witchcraft]

Griffiths, D. "Catherine II: The Republican Empress." Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas 21 (1973): 323-44.

Hughes, Lindsey. Sophia, Regent of Russia, 1657-1704. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.xvii, 345 p. [DK125 .H84 1990]

Hughes, Lindsey. "Sofia, Autocrat of All the Russias: Titles, Ritual and Eulogy in the Regency of Sofia Alekseevna (1682-1689)." Canadian Slavonic Papers 28 (1986): 266-86.

Hughes, Lindsey. "Sofia Alekseevna and the Moscow Rebellion of 1682." Slavonic and East European Review 63 (1985): 518-39.

Kon, Igor . The Sexual Revolution in Russia: From the Age of the Czars to Today New York: The Free Press, 1995. v, 337 p. [HQ18 .R9 K66 1995] ISBN: 0029175410 {Hardcover $25.00}

Meehan, Brenda. "Catherine the Great and the Problem of Female Rule." Russian Review 34 (1975): 293-307.

Oldenbourg, Zoe. Catherine the Great. New York: , 1965.

Raeff, Marc, ed. Catherine the Great: A Profile. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.xiii, 331 p. [DK170 .C35]

Raleigh, Donald J., ed. The Emperors and Empresses of Russia: Rediscovering the Romanovs. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1996. xvii, 414 p. [DK37.8 .R6 E46 1996]

Rasmusen, Karen. "Catherine II and the Image of Peter I." Slavic Review 37 (1978): 51-69.

Stites, Richard. "Prostitute and Society in Pre-Revolutionary Russia," Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas 31, no. 3. 1983: 348-64.

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This bibliography was compiled by Professor Matthew Payne, Temple University.
Prepared for Web publication by Kyle Hafar, University of Washington.