The reforms of the 1860s, which created new social lifts, led to the emergence of the women's movement in Russia. At first, its participants advocated for the improvement of women's lives within the framework of contemporary Russian society, without setting themselves the goal of changing it. However, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, a feminist movement was formed on the basis of the women's movement, which consistently criticized the gender attitudes prevailing in society. In her book, Irina Yukina distinguishes two stages in the history of the women's movement and examines the relationship of continuity between them, showing how a single ideological space for women's struggle for their rights was formed in Russia. Based on theoretical approaches to the sociology of social movements, the tools of intellectual history and gender studies, the author analyzes the origins of the Russian women's movement, its tasks, ideology and the fates of its key participants. The book is the second, supplemented and updated edition. Irina Yukina is a historian and sociologist, PhD in sociology.