Katya Hokanson

A Woman's Empire

Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A Womanâ s Empire sheds light on how womenâ s voices, activities, and writings were part of Russiaâ s late imperial expansion into Asia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9781487545604
• ISBN-10: 1487545606
• Artikelnr.: 63662993

Autorenporträt

Katya Hokanson is an associate professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Women and Empire: Imperial Domesticity and Its Discontents
1. Reinforcing the State at the Imperial Periphery: The Governor General’s
Wife
2. Turkestan through Russian Eyes: Elena Apreleva’s Central Asian Sketches
Part Two: Theosophy, Hunting, and Constructing the Nation in the Shadow of
the Great Game
3. Propagandist of Russian Imperialism: Madame Blavatsky in India
4. Hunting, Photography, and National Rivalry: In the Pamirs
Part Three: Science in the Name of the Nation: Women Scientists,
Archaeologists, and Ethnographers
5. In Pursuit of Imperial Knowledge: Ol’ga Fedchenko, Aleksandra Potanina,
Praskovia Uvarova, and Anna Rossikova
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index