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"Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book explores the everyday lives of 'lesbian' women in urban Russia. The first part ('time') examines generational differences between women: it shows how the Soviet system shaped understandings and experiences of same-sex desire, and how same-sex identities and communities have been renegotiated since the demise of state socialism. The second part ('space') attends to regional variation in contemporary Russia, by considering what 'lesbian' life looks like in metropolitan Moscow and in the provincial city of Ul'ianovsk. Francesca Stella details how women negotiate their sexualities across different social spaces (the home, the workplace, the street) and explores how 'lesbian' space is collectively carved out. Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia queries essentialist accounts of Russian sexualities as exceptional and foregrounds gender as key in shaping women's experiences. The book problematizes western-centric theorizations by critically engaging with existing perspectives on queer geotemporalities, post/socialist modernity and the value of public in/visibility"--
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Lesbians, Russia (federation), social conditions, United states, social conditions, Lesbian feminism, History, Lesbian feminist theory, Same-sex marriage, HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Lesbian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender StudiesEdition | Availability |
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Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post/Socialism and Gendered Sexualities
2024, Palgrave Macmillan Limited
in English
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Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post/Socialism and Gendered Sexualities
2016, Palgrave Macmillan
in English
1137321245 9781137321244
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Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post/Socialism and Gendered Sexualities
Nov 17, 2014, Palgrave Macmillan
hardcover
1137321237 9781137321237
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Source title: Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post/Socialism and Gendered Sexualities (Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences)
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