{"product_id":"women-with-a-thirst-for-jenny-kaminer-9780810129467","title":"Women with a Thirst for Destruction: The Bad Mother in Russian Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2014 AWSS Best Book in Slavic\/East European\/Eurasian Women's Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In Russian culture, the archetypal mother is noble and self-sacrificing. In \u003ci\u003eWomen with a Thirst for Destruction, \u003c\/i\u003e however, Jenny Kaminer shows how this image is destabilized during periods of dramatic rupture in Russian society, examining in detail the aftermath of three key moments in the country's history: the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the fall of the Communist regime in 1991. She explores works both familiar and relatively unexamined: Leo Tolstoy's \u003ci\u003eAnna Karenina, \u003c\/i\u003e Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin's \u003ci\u003eThe Golovlev Family, \u003c\/i\u003e Fyodor Gladkov's \u003ci\u003eCement, \u003c\/i\u003e and Liudmila Petrushevskaia's \u003ci\u003eThe Time: Night, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as a late Soviet film (Vyacheslav \u003ci\u003eKrishtofovich\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003ci\u003es Adam's Rib, \u003c\/i\u003e 1990) and media coverage of the Chechen conflict. Kaminer's book speaks broadly to the mutability of seemingly established cultural norms in the face of political and social upheaval.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jenny Kaminer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810129469\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810129467\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Jenny Kaminer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49096741519615,"sku":"9780810129467","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/women-with-a-thirst-for-jenny-kaminer-9780810129467","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}