Table of Contents:
  • The second fantasy mother, or all baths are women's baths / Nancy Condee
  • Keeping a-breast of the waist-land : women's fashion in early-nineteenth century Russia / Helena Goscilo
  • Female fashion, Soviet style: bodies of ideology / Olʹga Vainshtein
  • Getting under their skin : the beauty salon in Russian women's lives / Nadezhda Azhgikhina and Helena Goscilo
  • Domestic porkbarreling in nineteenth-century Russia, or who holds the keys to the larder? / Darra Goldstein
  • The ritual fabrics of Russian village women / Mary B. Kelly
  • Dirty women : cultural connotations of cleanliness in Soviet Russia / Nadya L. Peterson
  • Women on the verge of a new language : Russian salon hostesses in the first half of the nineteenth century / Lina Bernstein
  • Stepping out/going under : women in Russia's twentieth century salons / Beth Holmgren
  • Pleasure, danger, and the dance : nineteenth-century Russian variations / Stephanie Sandler
  • "The incomparable" Anastasiia Vialʹtseva and the culture of personality / Louise McReynolds
  • Flirting with words : domestic albums, 1770-1840 / Gitta Hammarberg
  • Gendering the icon : marketing women writers in fin-de-siècle Russia / Beth Holmgren
  • Domestic crafts and creative freedom : Russian women's art / Alison Hilton.