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OverviewThe 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, psychiatrists, and legal men—the talk everywhere was of sex. This eagerly awaited book, echoing the title of a pre-World War I bestseller, The Keys to Happiness, marks the first serious attempt to understand the intense public interest in sexuality as a vital dimension of late tsarist political culture. Drawing on a strong foundation of historical sources—from medical treatises and legal codes to anti-Semitic pamphlets, commercial fiction, newspaper advertisements, and serious literature—Laura Engelstein shows how Western ideas and attitudes toward sex and gender were transformed in the Russian context as imported views on prostitution, venereal disease, homosexuality, masturbation, abortion, and other themes took on distinctively Russian hues. Engelstein divides her study into two parts, the first focusing on the period from the Great Reforms to 1905 and on the two professional disciplines most central to the shaping of a modern sexual discourse in Russia: law and medicine. The second part describes the complicated sexual preoccupations that accompanied the mobilization leading up to 1905, the revolution itself, and the aftermath of continued social agitation and intensified intellectual doubt. In chapters of astonishing richness, the author follows the sexual theme through the twists of professional and civic debate and in the surprising links between high and low culture up to the eve of the First World War. Throughout, Engelstein uses her findings to rethink the conventional wisdom about the political and cultural history of modern Russia. She maps out new approaches to the history of sexuality, and shows, brilliantly, how the study of attitudes toward sex and gender can help us to grasp the most fundamental political issues in any society. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Laura EngelsteinPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 1.361kg ISBN: 9780801426643ISBN 10: 0801426642 Pages: 480 Publication Date: 03 December 1992 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews[Engelstein's] sensitivity to the interplay of conceptions of gender and class with politics and science makes the book valuable not only to Russianists, but to historians of culture and society in general.... Laura Engelstein has made a remarkable contribution to the scholarly literature. --Journal of the History of Sexuality [Engelstein's] sensitivity to the interplay of conceptions of gender and class with politics and science makes the book valuable not only to Russianists, but to historians of culture and society in general.... Laura Engelstein has made a remarkable contribution to the scholarly literature. * Journal of the History of Sexuality * [Engelstein's] sensitivity to the interplay of conceptions of gender and class with politics and science makes the book valuable not only to Russianists, but to historians of culture and society in general.... Laura Engelstein has made a remarkable contribution to the scholarly literature. * Journal of the History of Sexuality * Author InformationLaura Engelstein is Henry S. McNeil Professor of History at Yale University. She is author of Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale and coeditor, with Stephanie Sandler, of Self and Story in Russian History, both from Cornell. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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