Woman of the Modern Age. Gender in Russian Culture of the 1890s-1930s. Collective Monograph

The period from the 1890s to the 1930s in Russia was a time of indigenous transformations: from a social and political structure to aesthetic attitudes in art. Including this affected both the social status of women and the forms of their representation in literature. The modern culture was actively experimenting with gender roles and the concept of androgynia, and the number of women-authors who appeared at the beginning of the 20th century is incomparable with the previous periods of the history of Russian literature. In the focus of the attention of this collective monograph there is a turning point in the history of art, when the presentation of feminine and masculine as normative canons of the current gender order was adjacent to the exit beyond these canons and the destruction of this order. Articles included in the monograph suggest considering Russian modernism in the still new gender dimension for domestic science, they raise questions about the phenomenon of female authorship, a male view of the “female question”, the transformation of female and male images in works of art in the conditions of changing boundaries of gender norms