Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-250) and index
Signs from empresses and actresses : women and theatre in the eighteenth century / Lurana Donnels O'Malley -- Female serfs in the performing world / Richard Stites -- Women and literature, women in literature : female authors of fiction in the early nineteenth century / Alessandra Tosi -- Women's travel and travel writings in Russia, 1700-1825 / Sara Dickinson -- The first Russian women's journals and the construction of the reader / Gitta Hammarberg -- "Without going to a regular court ... " : the phenomenon of the "divorce letter" in Petrine Russia / Ol'ga Kosheleva -- The function of fashion : women and clothing at the Russian court (1700-1762) / Paul Keenan -- Merchant women in business in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Galina Ul'ianova -- Sacralising female rule, 1725-1761 / Gary Marker -- Female Orthodox monasticism in eighteenth-century imperial Russia : the experience of Nizhnii Novgorod / William G. Wagner -- Women with a mission : British female evangelicals in the Russian Empire in the early nineteenth century / Wendy Rosslyn
