Notes on the Contributors Introduction; L.Edmondson Educating Tat'yana: Manners, Motherhood and Moral Education (Vospitanie), 1760-1840; C.Kelly Gender and Salvation: Representations of Difference in Old Believer Writings from the Late Seventeenth Century to the 1820s; I.K.Paert A Crocodile in Flannel or a Dancing Monkey: the Image of the Russian Woman Writer, 1790-1850; J.Andrew Mariya Vernadskaya: Missionary of 'Scientific Femininity'; A.Rosenholm Belles-lettres with a Touch of Filth : On the Contemporary Reception of Leonid Andreev's Stories, The Abyss and In the Fog; P.U.Møller Unruly Identities: Soviet Psychiatry Confronts the 'Female Homosexual' of the 1920s; D.Healey Biding Their Time: Women Workers and the Regulation of Hours of Employment in the 1920s; M.Ilic Rationality versus Romanticism: Representations of Women in the Stalinist Press; L.Attwood Complex 'Realities' of 'New' Women in the 1930s: Assertive, Superior, Belittled and Beaten; M.Buckley The Heirs of Pasha: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Woman Tractor Driver; S.Bridger Index