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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-284) and index
Table of contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 "Daydreams": the quest for social gender changes or a new type of beauty?; Chapter 2 "In a Woman's Position": truncated sexuality in young women and teenage boys; Chapter 3 How 'straight' is the Venus de Milo? Shaping gender in stone sculpture; Chapter 4 "A Good Russian type": in search of a new masculinity; Chapter 5 Peasant sexuality and demonic possession; Chapter 6 "She Stopped!": moral rebirth through hard labor; Chapter 7 Children: necessary evil or product of divine will?; Chapter 8 The sacred egg: a symbol of human procreation
Pure, Strong and Sexless explores the representation of gender and sexuality of peasant women in turn of the century Russian culture through the writings of populist writer Gleb Uspensky. Uspensky's numerous works address a range of issues related to sexuality, including infanticide, abortion, prostitution, adultery and venereal disease. This is the first comprehensive study of populist's fantasies in regard to the peasant woman's body as a non-sexed utopian body within Russian fin-de-siecle sexual discourse. Included in this book is the first English translation of the diary of Uspensky's psy
