Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to the Series; Preface; 1. The Generation of the 1860s-Overview; Introduction and Background; Nihilism and Scientific Education; Spread of the New Ideas to Women; Women University Auditors in the Early 1860s; The Tsarist Government Reaction; Russian Women Go Abroad; First Women Doctorates in the Sciences and Medicine; Science or Revolution?; Some Successful Women Scientists; The End of the Movement; Notes; 2. Mentors and Collaborators; Notes; 3. Lifestyles; Communal Living Arrangements; Fictitious Marriage
Alternate Marriages in Fiction and FactToward a Balanced View of Lifestyle Experimentation; Motherhood and the Women of the Sixties; Notes; 4. Spreading the Gospel of Science; Notes; 5. The Mythification of Sofia Kovalevskaia; Notes; 6. Gender and Science Theory and the Women of the 1860s; Notes; Epilogue; Notes; Chronology; Note; Glossary of Names; Glossary of Terms; Bibliography; Index
Summary
While the women's movement might seem like a relatively new concept, Russian women of the 1860s deserve to be acknowledged as individuals who changed the direction of science and opened the doors of higher education to women throughout Europe. The 1860's and 1870's witnessed a rise in women's consciousness and the beginnings of the Russian revolutionary movement that saw women pursue and receive doctorates in many areas of science. These same women went on to become some of the brightest in their fields. This book provides a look at Russian women scientists of the 1860's, their personal in
