Woman of Modernity: Gender in Russian Culture from 1890 to 1930: Collective Monograph

The period from the 1890s to the 1930s in Russia was a time of radical transformations: from social and political structures to aesthetic attitudes in art. This affected both the social status of women and the forms of their representation in literature. Modern culture actively experimented with gender roles and the concept of androgyny, and the number of women authors emerging in the early 20th century is incomparable to previous periods in the history of domestic literature. This collective monograph focuses on a turning point in the history of art, when the notion of the feminine and masculine as normative canons of the established gender order coexisted with a departure from these canons and the dismantling of this order. The articles included in the monograph propose to examine Russian modernism in a still new gender dimension for domestic science; they raise questions about the phenomenon of female authorship, the male gaze on the "woman question," and the transformation of female and male images in works of art amidst changing boundaries of gender norms.