The keys to happiness : sex and the search for modernity in fin-de-siècle Russia /
[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. - J...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press
1992.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv3s8msg |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. 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 Behavior
- pt. 2. 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.