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Elena Akselrod (born 1932), Belarus-born Russian poet, translator; Ogdo Aksyonova (1936–1995), poet, short story writer, founder of Dolgan written literature; Tatiana Aleshina (born 1961), singer-songwriter, poet, short story writer; Margarita Aliger (1915–1992), poet, essayist, journalist
In aristocratic Russian society, the greater freedoms allowed to women led to the rise of the powerful, socially-connected woman, including such iconic figures as Catherine the Great, Maria Naryshkina, and Countess Maria Razumovskaya. Women also began to compete with men in the literary sphere, with Russian women authors, poets, and memoirists ...
Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich [1] (born 31 May 1948) is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time".
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Russian writers. It includes writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories
APA Division 35, the Society for the Psychology of Women, [7] was established in 1973. [8] It was created to provide a place for all people interested in the psychology of women to access information and resources in the field. The society for the Psychology of Women works to incorporate feminist concerns into the teaching and practice of ...
Young peasant women (like other Russian women) spent far more of their child-bearing years as married women than their counterparts in Western Europe did. [21] Childbirth was dangerous for both mother and child in the eighteenth-century but if a peasant woman was able to, she could potentially give birth, on average, to seven children.
1st page of the Novgorod Psalter of c. 1000, the oldest survived Slavic book.. Scholars typically use the term Old Russian, in addition to the terms medieval Russian literature and early modern Russian literature, [6] or pre-Petrian literature, [7] to refer to Russian literature until the reforms of Peter the Great, tying literary development to historical periodization.
The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."