Loving in Bad Taste

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Contributors ix
5. A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND TRANSLATION xi
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I The Cultural History of Sexual Representation
8. Sexual Vocabulary in Medieval Russia 41
9. Marriage à la russe 53
10. A Stick with Two Ends, or, Misogyny in Popular Culture 73
11. Redrawing the Margins of Russian Vanguard Art 97
12. Prostitution Unbound 124
13. PART II Literary Versions of Sex and Body
14. Kiss and Tell 139
15. Loving in Bad Taste 156
16. Laid Out in Lavender 177
17. Monsters Monomaniacal, Marital, and Medical 204
18. PART III The Maternal Body
19. The Pastoral Source 223
20. Motherhood in a Cold Climate 237
21. Historectomies 255
22. Notes 277
23. Index 347