Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia

This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.

Christine D. Worobec is Presidential Research Professor in the Department of History at Northern IllinoisUniversity. She is the author of Peasant Russia: Family and Community in the Post-Emancipation Period(Princeton University Press, 1991; Northern Illinois University Press, 1995) and Possessed: Women, Witchesand Demons in Imperial Russia (Northern Illinois University Press, 2001) as well as co-editor with BarbaraEvans Clements and Barbara Alpem Engel of Women in Russia: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation(University of California Press, 1991). She is currently working on a short biography of St. Serafim of Sarovand a history of Orthodox pilgrimages in Russia and Ukraine from the eighteenth century to the present.,Mary Zirin is an independent researcher-translator based in Altadena, CA. For the past thirty years shehas devoted major effort to research on and recovery of the lives and works of nineteenth-century Russianwomen writers. Together with Marina Ledkovsky and Charlotte Rosenthal, she served as a contributor toand editor of the Dictionary o f Russian Women Writers (Greenwood Press, 1994); the dictionary containsarticles on 448 authors from all periods of Russian history.,Christine D. Worobec is Presidential Research Professor in the Department of History at Northern IllinoisUniversity. She is the author of Peasant Russia: Family and Community in the Post-Emancipation Period(Princeton University Press, 1991; Northern Illinois University Press, 1995) and Possessed: Women, Witchesand Demons in Imperial Russia (Northern Illinois University Press, 2001) as well as co-editor with BarbaraEvans Clements and Barbara Alpem Engel of Women in Russia: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation(University of California Press, 1991). She is currently working on a short biography of St. Serafim of Sarovand a history of Orthodox pilgrimages in Russia and Ukraine from the eighteenth century to the present.,Mary Zirin is an independent researcher-translator based in Altadena, CA. For the past thirty years shehas devoted major effort to research on and recovery of the lives and works of nineteenth-century Russianwomen writers. Together with Marina Ledkovsky and Charlotte Rosenthal, she served as a contributor toand editor of the Dictionary o f Russian Women Writers (Greenwood Press, 1994); the dictionary containsarticles on 448 authors from all periods of Russian history.