Chapter 1 Educating Tat’yana: Manners, Motherhood and Moral Education (Vospitanie), 1760–1840

Chapter 2 Gender and Salvation: Representations of Difference in Old Believer Writings from the Late Seventeenth Century to the 1820s

Chapter 3 ‘A Crocodile in Flannel or a Dancing Monkey’: the Image of the Russian Woman Writer, 1790–1850

Chapter 4 Mariya Vernadskaya: Missionary of ‘Scientific Femininity’

Chapter 5 ‘Belles-lettres with a Touch of Filth’: On the Contemporary Reception of Leonid Andreev’s Stories, ‘The Abyss’ and ‘In the Fog’

Chapter 6 Unruly Identities: Soviet Psychiatry Confronts the ‘Female Homosexual’ of the 1920s

Chapter 7 Biding Their Time: Women Workers and the Regulation of Hours of Employment in the 1920s

Chapter 8 Rationality versus Romanticism: Representations of Women in the Stalinist Press

Chapter 9 Complex ‘Realities’ of ‘New’ Women of the 1930s: Assertive, Superior, Belittled and Beaten