RUSN 150W - Freshman Seminar

Topic for Fall

Russian Women’s Culture. (Prokhorov)

This seminar introduces students to gender, sexuality and women’s studies via representative visual and verbal texts in a historical perspective; examines the principles governing the construction of Russian womanhood during the twentieth century; analyzes Russian women’s own cultural production (film, literature, art, etc.) during approximately the same period; and glances briefly at notions of masculinity and their relevance to recent Russian culture.