Categories | Feminist magazine |
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Frequency | Monthly |
Founder | Mariia Ivanovna Pokrovskaia |
Founded | 1904 |
First issue | September 1904 |
Final issue | 1917 |
Country | Russian Empire |
Based in | Saint Petersburg |
Language | Russian |
Zhenskii vestnik (Russian: Women's Herald) was a Russian language monthly feminist magazine which was published in Saint Petersburg in the period 1904–1917. Its subtitle was Soiuz zhenshchin, Jus suffragii.[1] The magazine billed itself as monthly social scientific and literary journal on equality and advancement of women.[1]
Zhenskii vestnik was established by the Russian feminist Mariia Ivanovna Pokrovskaia in 1904.[2][3] The first issue appeared in September that year.[4] It was published on a monthly basis.[1] Until 1907 the magazine of which both editor and publisher was Pokrovskaia acted as the official organ of the Union of Women.[1][3] In each issue of the magazine the recurring topics included: women must have less expectations from men; in the struggle for their emancipation women should not rely on man and women pursue their interests independent of any political movement led by men.[3] Pokrovskaia also express her belief in women’s natural superiority to men[3] and her opposition to the views of Leo Tolstoy on the 1905 revolution in her articles.[5]
Some of the major contributors were Ariadna Tyrkova, Liubov Gurevich, Mariia Chekhova, Anna Miliukova[3] and Anna Kalmanovich.[1] The magazine folded in 1917 shortly after the Bolshevik revolution.[1][4]