An Improper Profession: Women, Gender, and Journalism in Late Imperial Russia

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Barbara T. Norton, and Jehanne M. Gheith, eds. An Improper Profession: If-'omen, Gender, and Journalism in Late Imperial Russia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2001. xiii, 321 pp. Bibliographic Essay. Checklist of Women Journalists in Imperial Russia. Index. $59.95, cloth. $19.95, paper.

This impressive collection of essays fills an important lacuna in the study of late imperial Russia. While Russia's pre-revolutionary "woman question" has received much treatment and the era's journalism has been the subject of much recent attention, the combination of these two topics has been ...

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