Women's Triumphs in Post-Soviet Russia
Speaker:
Helena Goscilo
02 Mar 2006
7:00 PM
Great Hall, Memorial Union
Helena Goscilo is UCIS Research Professor and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. She is one of the most prominent American scholars of Russian feminism, gender and culture. She has authored and edited more than a dozen volumes, among them Balancing Acts; Dehexing Sex: Russian Womanhood during and after Glasnost; TNT: The Explosive World of Tatyana Tolstaya's Fiction; Russian Culture in the 1990s; and Politicizing Magic: From Russian to Soviet Wondertales (with M. Balina and M. Lipovetsky).
This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.