‘‘Provid[ing] Amusement for the Ladies’’: The Rise of the Russian Women’s Magazine in the 1880s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations ix
4. List of Terms xi
5. Note on Dates, Transliteration, and Archival Citations xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. ‘‘A Larger Portion of the Public’’: Female Readers, Fiction, and the Periodical Press in the Reign of Nicholas I 26
8. Redefining the Perceptible: The Journalism(s) of Evgeniia Tur and Avdot’ia Panaeva 53
9. The Development of a Fashion Press in Late Imperial Russia: Moda: Zhurnal dlia svetskikh liudei 74
10. ‘‘Provid[ing] Amusement for the Ladies’’: The Rise of the Russian Women’s Magazine in the 1880s 93
11. Anna Volkova: From Merchant Wife to Feminist Journalist 120
12. Meeting the Challenge: Russian Women Reporters and the Balkan Crises of the Late 1870s 140
13. Writing for Their Rights: Four Feminist Journalists: Mariia Chekhova, Liubov’ Gurevich, Mariia Pokrovskaia, and Ariadna Tyrkova 167
14. Mariia Pokrovskaia and Zhenskii vestnik: Feminist Separatism in Theory and Practice 196
15. Journalism as a Means of Empowerment: The Early Career of Ekaterina Kuskova 222
16. Sources for the Study of Russian Women Journalists: A Bibliographic Essay 249
17. Appendix: Checklist of Women Journalists in Imperial Russia 281
18. List of Contributors 311
19. Index 313