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The keys to happiness: sex and the search for modernity in fin-de-siècle Russia

Engelstein, Laura.

Year: 1992.

Publisher: Cornell University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration and Spelling/ Abbreviations

Introduction

PART ONE DISCIPLINING CHANGE: LAW AND MEDICINE

1. Revising the Old Moral Order: Family Relations and Reproductive Sex

2. Gender and the Juridical Subject: Sodomy, Prostitution, and Rape

3. Power and Crime in the Domestic Order

4. Female Sexual Deviance and the Western Medical Model

5. Morality and the Wooden Spoon: Syphilis, Social Class, and Sexual Behavior

PART TWO CONFRONTING DISORDER: THE WIDENED PUBLIC FIELD

6. Eros and Revolution: The Problem of Male Desire

7. End of Innocence and Loss of Control

8. Sex and the Anti-Semite: Vasilii Rozanov's Patriarchal Eroticism

9. Abortion and the New Woman

10. From Avant-Garde to Boulevard: Literary Sex

Conclusion

Primary Sources Cited

Index

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Title:

The keys to happiness : sex and the search for modernity in fin-de-siècle Russia Laura Engelstein.

Author:

Engelstein, Laura

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The keys to happiness : sex and the search for modernity in fin-de-siècle Russia Laura Engelstein.
Engelstein, Laura
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

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Subject Headings:

• Sex customs -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
• Russia -- Moral conditions
• Russia -- Social conditions -- 1801-1917

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