Queer in Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Queer in Russia write by Laurie Essig. This book was released on 1999. Queer in Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After a decade of conducting interviews, as well as observing and analyzing plays, books, pop music, and graffiti, Essig presents the first sustained study of how and why there was no Soviet gay community or even gay identity before "perestroika." 9 photos.
Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia
Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia write by Dan Healey. This book was released on 2001-10-15. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first full-length study of same-sex love in any period of Russian or Soviet history, Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia investigates the private worlds of sexual dissidents during the pivotal decades before and after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Using records and archives available to researchers only since the fall of Communism, Dan Healey revisits the rich homosexual subcultures of St. Petersburg and Moscow, illustrating the ambiguous attitude of the late Tsarist regime and revolutionary rulers toward gay men and lesbians. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia reveals a world of ordinary Russians who lived extraordinary lives and records the voices of a long-silenced minority.
Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi
Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi write by Dan Healey. This book was released on 2017-12-14. Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examining nine 'case histories' that reveal the origins and evolution of homophobic attitudes in modern Russia, Dan Healey asserts that the nation's contemporary homophobia can be traced back to the particular experience of revolution, political terror and war its people endured after 1917. The book explores the roots of homophobia in the Gulag, the rise of a visible queer presence in Soviet cities after Stalin, and the political battles since 1991 over whether queer Russians can be valued citizens. Healey also reflects on the problems of 'memorylessness' for Russia's LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) movement more broadly and the obstacles it faces in trying to write its own history. The book makes use of little-known source material - much of it untranslated archival documentation - to explore how Russians have viewed same-sex love and gender transgression since the mid-20th century. Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi provides a compelling background to the culture wars over the status of LGBT citizens in Russia today, whilst serving as a key text for all students of modern Russia.
Politics of Visibility and Belonging
Politics of Visibility and Belonging - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Politics of Visibility and Belonging write by Emil Edenborg. This book was released on 2017-07-14. Politics of Visibility and Belonging available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Edenborg studies contemporary conflicts of community as enacted in Russian media, from the ‘homosexual propaganda’ laws to the Sochi Olympics and the Ukraine war, and explores the role of visibility in the production and contestation of belonging to a political community. The book examines what it is that determines which subjects and narratives become visible and which are occluded in public spheres; how they are seen and made intelligible; and how those processes are involved in the imagination of communities. Investigating the differentiated consequences of visibility, Edenborg discusses what forms of visibility make belonging possible and what forms of visibility may be related to exclusion or violence. The book maps and analyses the practices and mechanisms whereby a state seeks to produce and shape belonging through controlling what becomes visible in public, and how that which becomes visible is seen and understood. In addition, it examines what forms contestation can take and what its effects may be. Advancing theoretical understanding and offering a useful way to analytically conceptualize the role of visibility in the production and contestation of political communities, this work will be of interest to students and scholars of gender and sexuality politics, borders, citizenship, nationalism, migration and ethnic relations.
Cracks in the Iron Closet
Cracks in the Iron Closet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cracks in the Iron Closet write by David Tuller. This book was released on 1997-11-24. Cracks in the Iron Closet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. David Tuller provides the first look into the emotional and sexual lives of Russian lesbians and gays and the pervasive influence of the state on gay life. Part travelogue, part social history, and part journalistic inquiry, the book challenges our assumptions about what it means to be gay. The book also explores key issues in Russia and Soviet life, including concepts of friendship, community, gender, love, fate, and the relationship between the public and private spheres. "Tuller's observant reporting and personal experiences make for absorbing reading: the human comedy rendered in unexpected ways."—New Yorker "Anyone who thinks San Francisco is the world capital of sexual polymorphism should read this book."—Adam Goodheart, Washington Post "[This book is] is profoundly moving."—Jim Van Buskirk, San Francisco Chronicle
