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ELIZABETH SKOMP (Sewanee, TN, USA) RUSSIAN WOMEN'S PUBLISHING A T THE BEGINNING OF THE 1990S: THE CASE OF THE NEW AAGZONS Upon its formation in 1988, the writing group "New Amazons" (Novye ama- zonki) immediately distinguished itself by claiming to be the only all-female lit- erary collective in Russian history. While the late 1980s and early 1990s saw the publication of several volumes of Russian women's prose, including Zhenskaia logiku (Women's Logic, 1989), Chisten'kaia zhizn' (A Clean Life, 1990), Absti- nentki (Women Who Abstain, 1991), Chego khochet zhenshchina (What a Woman Wants, 1993), and Glazami zhenshchiny (Through a Woman's Eyes, 1993), two volumes are associated directly with the group: Ne pomnia-shchaia zla (She Who Bears No Grudge, 1990) and the eponymous Novye amazonki (1991).' The "official" members of the New Amazons include Svetlana Vasi- lenko, Larisa Vaneeva, Valeriia Narbikova, Irina Polianskaia, Svetlana Va- sil'eva, Nina Gorlanova, Elena Tarasova, Nina Sadur, and Nina Iskrenko; how- ever, several other writers also contributed to both volumes. Though the works in the two collections are stylistically and thematically diverse, the New Ama- zons share an interest in and affinity for feminism that differentiates them from most other Russian women writers, not to
The Soviet and Post Soviet Review – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2006
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