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Beate Fieseler. Frauen auf dem Weg in die russische Sozialdemokratie, 1890-1917: Eine kollektive Biographie. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1995. 329 pp. DM 114 (paper).

Beate Fieseler. Frauen auf dem Weg in die russische Sozialdemokratie, 1890-1917: Eine kollektive... fared somewhat better in volume 3) is a s a sexual t e a s e for D o s t o e v s k y - h e r main and only characteristic is to b e sexually unavailable for the great man. By "withholding sex- ual favors," s h e e n g a g e s in a "cat and m o u s e game" (p. 170). Despite Dostoevsky's wish for Suslova to "surrender herself" (p. 29), s h e remains "tantalizing but sexually aloof" (p. 463). Most disappointing of all is the fact that the women characters have practically no hold on Frank's attention. While it is true that Dostoevsky did not create any women thinkers c o m p a r a b l e in power and s c o p e to their male counterparts, t h e "woman question" was clearly an issue of great concern for the novelist since he m a k e s it a subject of discussion a n d dispute among characters in virtually every o n e of the nov- els of this period. But it d o e s not loom http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Beate Fieseler. Frauen auf dem Weg in die russische Sozialdemokratie, 1890-1917: Eine kollektive Biographie. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1995. 329 pp. DM 114 (paper).

Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 33 (1): 117 – Jan 1, 1999

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© 1999 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0090-8290
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10.1163/221023999X00067
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fared somewhat better in volume 3) is a s a sexual t e a s e for D o s t o e v s k y - h e r main and only characteristic is to b e sexually unavailable for the great man. By "withholding sex- ual favors," s h e e n g a g e s in a "cat and m o u s e game" (p. 170). Despite Dostoevsky's wish for Suslova to "surrender herself" (p. 29), s h e remains "tantalizing but sexually aloof" (p. 463). Most disappointing of all is the fact that the women characters have practically no hold on Frank's attention. While it is true that Dostoevsky did not create any women thinkers c o m p a r a b l e in power and s c o p e to their male counterparts, t h e "woman question" was clearly an issue of great concern for the novelist since he m a k e s it a subject of discussion a n d dispute among characters in virtually every o n e of the nov- els of this period. But it d o e s not loom

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