The Keys to Happiness : : Sex and the Search for Modernity in fin-de-Siecle Russia /

The Keys to Happiness : : Sex and the Search for Modernity in fin-de-Siecle Russia / / Laura Engelstein.

The revolution of 1905 challenged not only the social and political structures of imperial Russia but the sexual order as well. Throughout the decade that followed-in the salons of the artistic and intellectual avant-garde, on the pages of popular romances, in the staid assemblies of physicians, psy...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Engelstein, Laura,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1994
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (480 p.) :; 32 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration and Spelling/ Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Disciplining Change: Law And Medicine
  • 1. Revising the Old Moral Order: Family Relations and Reproductive Sex
  • 2. Gender and the Juridical Subject: Sodomy, Prostitution, and Rape
  • 3. Power and Crime in the Domestic Order
  • 4. Female Sexual Deviance and the Western Medical Model
  • 5. Morality and the Wooden Spoon: Syphilis, Social Class, and Sexual Behavi6r
  • Part Two. Confronting Disorder: The Widened Public Field
  • 6. Eros and Revolution: The Problem of Male Desire
  • 7. End of Innocence and Loss of Control
  • 8. Sex and the Anti-Semite: Vasilii Rozanov' s Patriarchal Eroticism
  • 9. Abortion and the New Woman
  • 10. From Avant-Garde to Boulevard: Literary Sex
  • Conclusion
  • Primary Sources Cited
  • Index

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