book in Russian

[Elena Gapova]

God, where to start? This is an ocean, really.

But: if we are not speaking of gendernye issledovanya (which is research), but "feminist texts", i.e. smth. similar to the idea of an essay, the ocean shrinks considerably, mostly for the cynical reason of the structure of the field of symbolic production: there's nowhere to publish them, mainstream journals/magazines despise them (one almost cannot make oneself a name with feminiat essays), and there are no ways to make a leaving through this kind of writing ("women's rights"  is somewaht another matter, but often has little to do with feminism). Lots of feminist texts (both good and bad used to be published in the 1990s in various neweletters supported by small Western grants, but these, mostly, can now be found through feminist activists who "were there" at the time. The most interesting were "Zhenskoe chtenie" and "Vse lyudi - sestry" edited by Olga Lipovskaya. I am not sure if they are available online. 

Concrete suggestions would be: go to the site of Kharkow Centre for Gender Studies http://www.gender.univer.kharkov.ua/ and look through the journal "Gendernye issledovania", which is an academic one (the only one academic journal in GS in the Russian language). I think, #9 is a special issue on feminist literary criticism, ans Olga Lipovskaya's essay on Tolstoy "Глыба и Сонечка, гений и женщина"  is an excellent feminist text.

Another suggestion is the site of the Centre for Gender Studies at European Humanities University (which I happen to chair): http://www.gender-ehu.org/ There are two projects there that may satisfy the interest. One is the internet-journal "Takaya" (there's an icon on the left), which was started by our graduate students (but seems to have been dropped), who defined it as Общественно-политический журнал о судьбе (certainly inspired by Freud's definition that пол - это судьба): there are lots of more essayist texts related to gender.
The other project  is called "Феминисткая критика" (the icon on the left with a coloured tank or directly here: http://fc.gender-ehu.org/) which has as its goal the development of feminist analytical essayism. This is a new project, and there are not many texts yet, but "АНТИКАПИТАЛИЗМ-2005: к проблеме политического высказывания" is an example of Marxist feminism (or the critique of it).

Another suggestion: 
Российский феминизм (сайт Елены Леоновой) http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2533/russfem.html , but it is terribly outdated.

There's also Женский информационный сайт http://www.owl.ru , but there's nothing feminist about it (in my view). 

Центрально-азиатская сеть по гендерным исследованиям http://www.genderstudies.info/educat/educat2.php

Also, there is a special discussion list of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies, of course...
e.g.


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Elena,

Well, any test that reviews liberal feminism, radical feminism, socialist
feminism, marxist feminism, and postmodernism and or black feminism. If more of
those perspectives are covered.

I saw somewhere that a 1995 version was printed but is no longer being printed
of Our Bodies Ourselves, but mabe I'm mistaken. 

SO yes, please provide any sources that you have.

Best,
becky

Quoting Elena Gapova <e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET>:

> I am not sure that "Our Bodies, Ourselves" has been translated into Russian
> (am I mistaken?).
> What is a general feminist text? I might provide some sources, but am not
> sure what you mean.
> 
> e.g.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU]On Behalf Of Rebecca S. Katz
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 12:53 PM
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> Subject: [SEELANGS] book in Russian
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Does anyone know where I might be able to find a copy of "Our Bodies,
> Ourselves"
> in Russian? And a general feminist text In Russian?
> 
> Thanks
> Becky
> 
> 
> 
> Rebecca S. Katz
> Associate Professor
> Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminology
> Morehead State University
> Morehead, Kentucky 40351
> Tel: 606-783-2241
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Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminology
Morehead State University
Morehead, Kentucky 40351
Tel: 606-783-2241

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