The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in fin-de-Siecle Russia

Laura Engelstein

Published by Cornell University Press 1994

The Keys to Happiness

Sex and the Search for Modernity in fin-de-Siecle Russia

Laura Engelstein

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501721298

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About this book

The revolution of 1905 challenged not only the social and political structures of imperial Russia but the sexual order as well. Throughout the decade that followed-in the salons of the artistic and intellectual avant-garde, on the pages of popular romances...

Author / Editor information

Laura Engelstein is Henry S. McNeil Professor of History at Yale University. She is author of Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale and coeditor, with Stephanie Sandler, of Self and Story in Russian History, both from Cornell.

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[Engelstein's] sensitivity to the interplay of conceptions of gender and class with politics and science makes the book valuable not only to Russianists, but to historians of culture and society in general.... Laura Engelstein has made a remarkable contribution to the scholarly literature.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Note on Transliteration and Spelling/ Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. Disciplining Change: Law And Medicine
1. Revising the Old Moral Order: Family Relations and Reproductive Sex Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. Gender and the Juridical Subject: Sodomy, Prostitution, and Rape Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
3. Power and Crime in the Domestic Order Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
4. Female Sexual Deviance and the Western Medical Model Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
5. Morality and the Wooden Spoon: Syphilis, Social Class, and Sexual Behavi6r Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Part Two. Confronting Disorder: The Widened Public Field
6. Eros and Revolution: The Problem of Male Desire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
7. End of Innocence and Loss of Control Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
8. Sex and the Anti-Semite: Vasilii Rozanov' s Patriarchal Eroticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
9. Abortion and the New Woman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	334
10. From Avant-Garde to Boulevard: Literary Sex Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
Primary Sources Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	452

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 480
Illustrations
- Other: 32 halftones
Keywords: Soviet & East European History; History

eBook

Published: August 6, 2018
ISBN: 9781501721298