Free Download Ellen Rutten, "Unattainable Bride Russia: Gendering Nation, State, and Intelligentsia in Russian Intellectual Culture"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0810126567 | PDF | pages: 352 | 20.1 mb
Throughout the twentieth century and continuing today, personifications of Russia as a bride occur in a wide range of Russian texts and visual representations, from literature and political and philosophical treatises to cartoons and tattoos. Invariably, this metaphor functions in the context of a political gender allegory, which represents the relationships between Russia, the intelligentsia, and the Russian state, as a competition of two male suitors for the former's love.