Gender and Empire The Imprisonment of Women in Eighteenth-Century Siberia.

The article focuses on the imprisonment of elite women from the Russian metropole and women of mixed ethnic backgrounds on the Siberian frontier in the mid-eighteenth-century. Female prisoners and their monastic jailors responded to ascribed identities, positions, and circumstances dictated by imper...

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Published in:Sibirica: Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 5 - 41
Main Author: BOURLAKOV, GWYN
Format: Article
Published: Berghahn Books Spring2020
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Summary:The article focuses on the imprisonment of elite women from the Russian metropole and women of mixed ethnic backgrounds on the Siberian frontier in the mid-eighteenth-century. Female prisoners and their monastic jailors responded to ascribed identities, positions, and circumstances dictated by imperial policies within the walls of the Dalmatov Vvedenskii Convent, which complicates our understanding of imperial interaction, gender, and empire in Siberia.