Book on EE Women's History and Culture

[Sibelan E S Forrester]

Dear Colleagues,

I apologize for the, ahem, font issues in the previous posting.  The
table of contents is available at:

http://www.gender.ehu.by

"Zhenshchiny na krayu Evropy" (Women at the Edge of Europe)
                        Edited by Elena Gapova

Minsk: European Humanitites University; 2003
Language: Russian; 427pages

The book is authored by Western and Belarusian scholars aiming at the
historical reconstruction of women's experinces and gender policies
in the lands that used to be Litwa, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,
the North-West of the Russian Empire, the Pale of Settlement, the
Eastern (or Western - depending on who's speaking) Borderlands,
Belarusian People's Republic (in 1918) and Soviet Belorussia. The
volume includes texts on the culture of childbearing, life
aspirations at the turn of the centuries, participation in
revolutionary politics or life in occupied Minsk (in WWII), creating
a court theatre or painting tapestries etc. by Slavic, Jewish, Tatar
and Roma (Gypsy) women in the multicultural region and reproductions
of 12 paintings by women-artists from the 18th century to the present.

The book will be available through EastView Publications www.eastview.com

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