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A Woman’s Empire
2022,2023
Overview
A Woman’s Empire explores a new dimension of Russian imperialism: women actively engaged in the process of late imperial expansion. The book investigates how women writers, travellers, and scientists who journeyed to and beyond Central Asia participated in Russia’s civilizing and colonizing mission, utilizing newly found educational opportunities while navigating powerful discourses of femininity as well as male-dominated science.
Katya Hokanson shows how these Russian women resisted domestic roles in a variety of ways. The women writers include a governor general’s wife, a fiction writer who lived in Turkestan, and a famous Theosophist, among others. They make clear the perspectives of the ruling class and outline the special role of women as describers and recorders of information about local women, and as builders of civilized colonial Russian society with its attendant performances and social events. Although the bulk of the women’s writings, drawings, and photography is primarily noteworthy for its cultural and historical value, A Woman’s Empire demonstrates how the works also add dimension and detail to the story of Russian imperial expansion and illuminates how women encountered, imagined, and depicted Russia’s imperial Other during this period.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Subject
/ Asia -- Relations -- Russia.GBC2I0092
/ Europe
/ HISTORY
/ Imperialism -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
/ Imperialism -- Russia -- History -- 20th century
/ Russia
/ Russia & the Former Soviet Union
/ Russia -- Civilization -- 1801-1917
/ Russian & Former Soviet Union
/ Russians
/ Travel
/ Women
/ Women -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
ISBN
1487545606, 9781487545604, 9781487545628, 1487545614, 1487545622, 9781487545611
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