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Introductions ! i !
Hilde Hoogenboom, University at Albany Introduction Robert Belknap, Columbia University Marina Ledkovsky at Columbia
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Marina Ledkovsky, Barnard College, emerita Curriculum vitae
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; Irina Reyfman, Columbia University \ Female Voice and Male Gaze in \ Leo Tolstoy's Family Happiness { Gina Kovarsky, Virginia Commonwealth University Learning How to Look: Nastasia Filippovna in The Idiot Rebecca Stanton, Barnard College Feminine Resurrections: Gendering Redemption in the Last Novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
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Nature and Culture
Svetlana Slavskaya Grenier, Georgetown University A Tale of Two Cities: Tolstoy's Gendered Moral Geography in Anna Karenina
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Jane Costlow, Bates College Landscapes of Girlhood: Forest Space in A Russian Childhood and The Tragic Menagerie Charlotte Rosenthal, University of Southern Maine Women's "Nature" and Creativity in the Silver Age
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Performance and Staging
Maude Meisel, Pace University Self-Presentation on Stage and Page in the Memoirs of Russian Women Performers
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Mary F. Zirin, Independent Scholar Sister Acts: Autobiographies by Two Nineteenth-Century Russian Actresses in Cultural Perspective
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Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Barnard College Dance as Metaphor: The Russian Ballerina and the Imperial Imagination
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Exile and Return
Mallika Ramdas, United World College of SE Asia, Singapore Lidiia Ginzburg's Notes of a Blockade Person: Self and Others as Polyphonic Chorus Beth Holmgren, Duke University Aristocrats and Working Girls: Towards a History of Russian Emigre Women in the United States Carol Ueland, Drew University Pseudonyms and Personae of Marianna Kolosova: Creating a New Feminine Voice in Emigration
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Gender Politics and Canon
Diana Greene, New York University Poet, Poetessa, Zhenshchina-Poet: Job Titles and Comparable Worth
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Hilde Hoogenboom, University at Albany The Non-Canonical Canon: From Nikolai Novikov's Historical Dictionary to Dictionary of Russian Women Writers
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Ellen Chances, Princeton University Contemporary Russian Women's Journals: A Case Study of We/Mvt
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Afterword Interview with Marina Viktorovna Ledkovsky, conducted by Hilde Hoogenboom and Maude Meisel, March 4,2007
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Index
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