Women in old Russian literature / Margaret Ziolkowski -- Women as performers of oral literature : a re-examination of Epic and Lament / Natalie Kononenko -- The "feminization" of Russian literature : women, language, and literature in Eighteenth Century Russia / Judith Vowles -- Love, work, and the woman question in mid nineteenth-century women's writing / Jane Costlow -- Women's prose fiction in the age of realism / Mary F. Zirin -- Nineteenth century women poets ; critical reception vs. self-definition / Diana Greene.

Women physicians autobiography in the nineteenth century / Toby W. Clyman -- For the good of the cause : Russian women's autobiography in the twentieth century / Beth Holmgren -- Achievement and obscurity : women's prose in the Silver Age / Charlotte Rosenthal -- Women poets of the Silver Age / Jane A. Taubman -- Waiting in the wings : Russian women playwrights in the twentieth century / Melissa T. Smith -- Paradigm lost? : contemporary women's fiction / Helena Goscilo -- Women's poetry in the Soviet Union / Carol Ueland -- Russian Women writers in Émigré literature / Marina Ledkovsky.