Lexington Books
Pages: 182
Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-0-7391-2747-6 • Hardback • September 2008 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
978-0-7391-2998-2 • eBook • January 1955 • $114.00 • (£88.00)
Rina Lapidus is associate professor of comparative literature at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.
Chapter 1 Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Dedication
Chapter 3 Introduction: The Aim and Structure of the Book
Chapter 4 1. The Evolution of Attitudes toward Women in Russian Literature
Chapter 5 2. Spiritual and Physical Murder Between Man and Woman: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov
Chapter 6 3. Woman as Sexual Predator: Tolstoy, Zoschenko, and Trifonov
Chapter 7 4. Woman's Infidelity as the Cause for Man's Devastation: Tolstoy v. Flaubert, Leskov, Turgenev, Kuprin, and Chekhov
Chapter 8 5. Anxiety about the Strong Woman: Turgenev, Leskov, Bulgakov
Chapter 9 6. Surrogate for the Man-Woman Relations in the Post-War Soviet Literature: Vasilyiev, Grossman, and Rasputin
Chapter 10 7. Eunuch as Hero in the Late-Soviet andPerestroika Literature: Dovlatov, Nagibin, and Polyakov
Chapter 11 8. Man as an Object in Literature by Women: Shcherbakvoa, Rubina, Ulitskaya, Petrushevskaya, and Grekova
Chapter 12 Conclusion: Sex an an Animal Act beyond Comprehension
Chapter 13 Bibliography
Chapter 14 Index
Lapidus admirably assembles a range of a material that works within her paradigm. While she treads familiar ground with her analysis of Anna Karenina, her treatment of Turgenev is more innovative....this volume helps to supplement the growing scholarship on gender and sexuality in Russian literature and will hopefully spur on further research in the field.
— Canadian Slavonic Papers, March-June 2010
Professor Irina Lapidus offers a provocative study of male/female relationships in Russian literature…. There are some interesting insights provided in the course of her exposition, which will make the study a valuable read particularly for those with an interest in gender studies in Russian literature…. Lapidus sets forth a provocative thesis with interesting and original arguments.
— Slavic and East European Journal