Woman's Empire

Woman's Empire

Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia

Hokanson, Katya

University of Toronto Press

11/2022

360

Dura

Inglês

9781487545604

15 a 20 dias

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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
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Russian empire; Russian women; Central Asia; Russian imperial expansion; travel writing; Theosophy; colonialism; Varvara Dukhovskaia; Elena Apreleva; Elena Blavatskaia; Helena Blavatsky; Iuliia Golovnina