Gendering Awakening Femininity and the Russian Woman Question of the 1860s

Who is the hero-subject, who the object to be awakened? What ordeals must the hero suffer to become a New Man? Will the New Women awake and speak? What is woman's symbolic place? How is it constructed? What happens to the sexual difference in the evolutionary Utopia of the 'new' dawn with woman as a rational subject? How do women define the 'new' femininity? These are questions, that Gendering awakening deals with. The great modernization process in Russia in the 1860s is recast by the work through the discourse of gender.