Other Russias: Homosexuality and the Crisis of Post-Soviet Identity

• Book ID: 126134501
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Standards
• ISBN: 0230612245

✦ Synopsis

This unprecedented book examines the explosion of homosexual discourse in post-Soviet Russia from the turbulent years of the immediate post-communist era through the more troubling recent developments of Vladimir Putin’s regime. Focusing on concepts of sexuality, gender, and national identity within competing portrayals of same-sex desire, Brian James Baer explores a variety of popular media, including fiction, film, television, music, and print to detail how homosexuality in today’s Russia has come to signify a surprising and often contradictory array of uniquely post-Soviet concerns.

✦ Subjects

Культурология