The second fantasy mother, or all baths are women's baths / Nancy Condee -- Keeping a-breast of the waist-land : women's fashion in early-nineteenth century Russia / Helena Goscilo -- Female fashion, Soviet style: bodies of ideology / Olʹga Vainshtein -- Getting under their skin : the beauty salon in Russian women's lives / Nadezhda Azhgikhina and Helena Goscilo -- Domestic porkbarreling in nineteenth-century Russia, or who holds the keys to the larder? / Darra Goldstein -- The ritual fabrics of Russian village women / Mary B. Kelly -- Dirty women : cultural connotations of cleanliness in Soviet Russia / Nadya L. Peterson -- Women on the verge of a new language : Russian salon hostesses in the first half of the nineteenth century / Lina Bernstein -- Stepping out/going under : women in Russia's twentieth century salons / Beth Holmgren -- Pleasure, danger, and the dance : nineteenth-century Russian variations / Stephanie Sandler -- "The incomparable" Anastasiia Vialʹtseva and the culture of personality / Louise McReynolds -- Flirting with words : domestic albums, 1770-1840 / Gitta Hammarberg -- Gendering the icon : marketing women writers in fin-de-siècle Russia / Beth Holmgren -- Domestic crafts and creative freedom : Russian women's art / Alison Hilton