A Woman's Empire
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4560-4 (ISBN)
A Woman’s Empire explores a new dimension of Russian imperialism: women actively engaged in the process of late imperial expansion. The book investigates how women writers, travellers, and scientists who journeyed to and beyond Central Asia participated in Russia’s "civilizing" and colonizing mission, utilizing newly found educational opportunities while navigating powerful discourses of femininity as well as male-dominated science.
Katya Hokanson shows how these Russian women resisted domestic roles in a variety of ways. The women writers include a governor general’s wife, a fiction writer who lived in Turkestan, and a famous Theosophist, among others. They make clear the perspectives of the ruling class and outline the special role of women as describers and recorders of information about local women, and as builders of "civilized" colonial Russian society with its attendant performances and social events. Although the bulk of the women’s writings, drawings, and photography is primarily noteworthy for its cultural and historical value, A Woman’s Empire demonstrates how the works also add dimension and detail to the story of Russian imperial expansion and illuminates how women encountered, imagined, and depicted Russia’s imperial Other during this period.
Katya Hokanson is an associate professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Women and Empire: Imperial Domesticity and Its Discontents
1. Reinforcing the State at the Imperial Periphery: The Governor General’s Wife
2. Turkestan through Russian Eyes: Elena Apreleva’s Central Asian Sketches
Part Two: Theosophy, Hunting, and Constructing the Nation in the Shadow of the Great Game
3. Propagandist of Russian Imperialism: Madame Blavatsky in India
4. Hunting, Photography, and National Rivalry: In the Pamirs
Part Three: Science in the Name of the Nation: Women Scientists, Archaeologists, and Ethnographers
5. In Pursuit of Imperial Knowledge: Ol’ga Fedchenko, Aleksandra Potanina, Praskovia Uvarova, and Anna Rossikova
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 01.09.2022 |
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Zusatzinfo | 20 b&w illustrations, 2 b&w maps |
Verlagsort | Toronto |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 159 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 630 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4875-4560-6 / 1487545606 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-4560-4 / 9781487545604 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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