Mar"ja Ivanovna Pokrovskaja

Mar ja Ivanovna Pokrovskaja was a well-known Russian doctor, hygienist and feminist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who made a name for herself through her tireless social and health policy commitment. She published numerous scientific researches on hygienic topics, on the abolition of prostitution, and between 1904 and 1917 she published a feminist magazine every month, the content of which she mainly denied herself. This book is the first to put Pokrovskaja's socio-political work, her experiences in her daily work and the little biographical knowledge she had into a plausible context. On the one hand, the focus is on the possibilities and limits of individual lifestyles that a woman in Russia at the end of the 19th century finds herself confronted with. On the other hand, it examines how Pokrovskaja's views you.