Looking for Women’s Voices in Masculine Spaces: Women’s Experiences of Philosophy, Law, and Religion in Modern Russia

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The panel deals women's experiences of the three male dominated fields, that is, of philosophy, law and religion. We are looking to examine the role and position of women in highly masculine spaces of official academia, law court and the church in the modern Russian history (18th-early 20th centuries). It is our goal to find 'women's voices' in intellectual, legal and religious discourses and examine their experiences of interaction and (co)operation in the male-dominated public spaces such as above-mentioned. Three papers focus on how women handled knowledge production and dissemination in the situations of limited opportunities and what contribution they provided despite these limitations.

Sub Unit

• Gender/LGBTQ Studies

Papers

• Networks of Mind in Transnational Intellectual Women’s History: The Case of the Circulation of Ellen Key’s Ideas in the Late Russian Empire and Early Soviet Union - Yuliya Yurchuk, Södertörn U (Sweden)

• The Marthas Know Things’ … Informal Power of the Orthodox Clergy Women in Late Imperial Russian Empire - Irina K. Paert, U of Tartu (Estonia)

• Call the Midwife: Midwives as Forensic Examiners in the 18th-Century Russian Empire - Marianna Georgievna Muravyeva, U of Helsinki (Finland)

Discussant

• Christine Diane Worobec, Northern Illinois U