TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hokanson,Katya
TI  - A Woman's Empire: Russian Women and Imperial Expansion in Asia
SN  - 9781487545611
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Frau
KW  - Imperialismus
KW  - Theosophie
KW  - Expedition
KW  - Russland
KW  - Mittelasien
KW  - Russia-Civilization-1801-1917
KW  - Women-Russia-History
KW  - Fernzugriff
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich; Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Women and Empire: Imperial Domesticity and Its Discontents -- 1 Reinforcing the State at the Imperial Periphery: The Governor-General's Wife -- 2 Turkestan through Russian Eyes: Elena Apreleva's Central Asian Sketches -- Part Two: Theosophy, Hunting, and Constructing the Nation in the Shadow of the Great Game -- 3 Propagandist of Russian Imperialism: Madame Blavatsky in India -- 4 Hunting, Photography, and National Rivalry: In the Pamirs -- Part Three: Science in the Name of the Nation: Women Scientists, Archaeologists, and Ethnographers -- 5 In Pursuit of Imperial Knowledge: Ol'ga Fedchenko, Aleksandra Potanina, Praskov'ia Uvarova, and Anna Rossikova -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - A Woman's Empiresheds light on how women's voices, activities, and writings were part of Russia's late imperial expansion into Asia
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