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Barbara T. Norton, and Jehanne M. Gheith, eds. An Improper Profession: If-'omen, Gender, and Journalism in Late Imperial Russia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2001. xiii, 321 pp. Bibliographic Essay. Checklist of Women Journalists in Imperial Russia. Index. $59.95, cloth. $19.95, paper.

This impressive collection of essays fills an important lacuna in the study of late imperial Russia. While Russia's pre-revolutionary "woman question" has received much treatment and the era's journalism has been the subject of much recent attention, the combination of these two topics has been relatively unexplored. The contributors to Gheith and Norton's volume all do a fine job in this …