The evolution of attitudes towards female characters in Russian literature : an historical overview
Spiritual and physical murder between man and woman : Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov
Woman as sexual predator in Russian literary tradition : Tolstoy, Zoschenko and Trifonov
Woman's infidelity as the cause for man's devastation : Tolstoy, Flaubert, Leskov, Turgenev, Kuprin, and Chekhov
Anxiety about the strong woman : Turgenev, Leskov, and Bulgakov
Surrogate for man-woman relations in post-war Soviet literature : Vasilyiev, Grossman, and Rasputin
The eunuch as hero in late-Soviet and Perestroika literature : Dovlatov, Nagibin, and Polyakov
Man as an object in literature by women : Shcherbakova, Rubina, Ulitskaya, Petrushevskaya, and Grekova
Conclusion : sex as an animal act beyond comprehension.